Quotes About Exaggeration

It's amazing how much things can get exaggerated.

Not a huge fan of exaggerated, big silhouettes.

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

He did apologize profusely. (Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.)

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

That's not gross; that's one gross. It means there's a hundred and forty-four vuvuzelas in each carton.

For male readers: imagine being nine months constipated having inadvertently swallowed a coconut whole, and then being asked to lie on an operating table, legs apart, with lots of people watching dressed in silly clothes. Would you be able to shit?

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.

Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time.

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

People tend to create drama and make things far worse than they are in reality.

Our society has a mentality that elderly people pass on their wealth to their son or immediate relatives, and I think we all do it. It's a part of nature and is an exaggerated topic.

A few minutes later, Miss Charming gasped. But then, Miss Charming gasped a lot. She gasped when someone shut a door too loudly; she gasped when there were sausages for breakfast. She sometimes gasped and then coughed, as if she'd meant to cough from the beginning and gotten the two confused.

God, listen to him. Fucking pathetic, going on about the girl like he was Keats or something.

Liberalism in the twenty-first century is, for the most part, a moral manipulation that exaggerates inequity and unfairness in American life in order to justify overreaching public policies and programs.

You're like seven feet tall, aren't you?" "I am not seven feet tall," he snapped at her as if she'd really insulted him. "I'm six-eleven." When she smirked in disbelief, he added, "And three-quarters.

Stevie! Stevie!" When her sister didn't respond, Charlie released her and threw up her hands. "I've killed her. Of course I've killed her. I knew one day I'd kill you all." Max finally got to her feet. "Good Lord! Get off the cross, we need the wood." "What does that mean?

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

According to Time magazine, global warming is 33% worse than we thought. You know what that means? Al Gore is one-third more annoying than we thought.

We called him Quinn the Eskimo, since he'd just moved to Leechfield from the Alaskan oil fields where his daddy had worked. Blond as Jean Harlow, pimply, he was also skinny enough to crash a junior high dance. His sole source of pride was the obvious lie that his old man had invented the water bed, then tragically had his patent pinched by some California engineer.

Hyperbole often reflects a culture's excesses and savagery or appetite.

She had caught the sound of suffering in the faintest exaggeration of evenness in his voice.

Tig widened her eyes at Willa, suggesting she might be overdoing it.

Roll me in sugar and call me a fuckin jelly-doughnut!