Quotes About Exaggeration

Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

Big-box health clubs oversell memberships by 400 percent

If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

No matter how defined, sex is a crucially important biological phenomenon—key to complex life itself—and its influence may therefore be genuinely detected or plausibly invented in any important field of endeavor and then exaggerated (while other factors of significant import are diminished in importance). In this manner, the single explanatory principle can be expanded indefinitely, in keeping with the demands placed upon it.

They exaggerate the importance of some events, and downplay the importance of others. They trim the facts to fit their theory.158 And they convince their clients that they were sexually abused—if they could only remember.

Cuando los hombres no tienen nada claro que decir sobre una cosa, en vez de callarse suelen hacer lo contrario: dicen en superlativo, esto es, gritan. y el grito es el preámbulo sonoro de la agresión, del combate, de la matanza. Dove si grida non è vera scienza decía Leonardo. Donde se grita no hay buen conocimiento

Heidegger sostiene que el hombre es un ser para la muerte; todo poeta, sin embargo, crea la resurrección, entona ante la muerte un hurra victorioso. Y si alguno piensa que exagero, quedará preso de los desastres, del demonio y de los círculos infernales.

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

They scorned neighbors who drank tea and concocted an entirely fictitious sickness narrative around the beverage; they claimed tea stunted growth, turned men into pygmies, and transformed women into…'God knows what.' They claimed tea was stomped into chests by Chinese men with dirty feet, that it was infested with bugs.

Conoscevo gli adulti, tranne un verbo che loro esageravano a ingrandire: amare. Mi infastidiva l'uso. In prima media lo studio della grammatica latina l'adoperava per esempio di prima coniugazione, con l'infinito in -are. Recitavamo tempi e modi dell'amare latino. Era un dolciume obbligatorio per me indifferente alla pasticceria. Più di tutto mi irritava l'imperativo: ama.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

according to Lodge, were guilty of far worse. The war lovers had exaggerated Spanish cruelty in order to get their war, and now they covered up the abuses of American troops.

People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on every move made by Microsoft or Google or Apple. Every new smart phone gets billed as a potential 'iPhone killer,' while every new product from Apple represents the dawn of a new era. It's ridiculous - and exhausting.

Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

Hype is scary.

Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.