Quotes About Exaggeration

Los estudios sobre cognición humana atribuyen este exceso de optimismo a numerosos motivos. Uno de los más poderosos es la tendencia de los individuos a exagerar el propio talento, a creer que están por encima de la media en su asignación de características y habilidades positivas.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

SUVs are named for exotic places we'll never go, like the Dodge Durango or the MGC Yukon. There should be truth in advertising: like calling them the Dodge Dubuque, or the GMC "I'm Going to 7-Eleven for a Moon Pie."

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.

I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

Yes, I once was the toast of two continents! (...Greenland & Australia).

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.

You've brought out your best butter." [you're laying on the flattery thickly]

we all have an exaggerated idea of our own personalities and don't recognize the truth if it's sufficiently brutally portrayed...

He has not got 'flu,' said Hercule Poirot. 'He has only a nasty cold. Everyone always thinks they have 'flu. It sounds more important. One gets more sympathy. The trouble with a catarrhal cold is that it is hard to glean the proper amount of sympathetic consideration from one's friends.

He opened his mouth and out came a rainbow, he thought, recalling the proverb about a person who talks a bigger game than he can deliver.

Peter has the biggest mouth, so it goes to be a mouth contest.

I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.

We've all grown wary of being lied to online - let's face it, dudes are always exaggerating their heights - so trust is a hot commodity.

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

looked at me as though I were moments away from licking all the doorknobs at the Red Roof Inn.

You mean, you think he's hotter than a billy goat with a blowtorch?" Hazel asked.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.