Quotes About Exaggeration

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me.

I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.

Social media has exacerbated a trend whereby people speak with complete authority on every subject, regardless of how informed they are.

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

My pants are on fire!

Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio, and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high!

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

Rock and roll allowed people to lie about themselves, and to be sanctified for the extravagance of their fictions. This

There's nothing worse than a smartass who pretends not to understand hyperbole.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?

But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it? His unconscious was so cowardly that the best partner it could choose for its little comedy was this miserable provincial waitress with practically no chance at all to enter his life!

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I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

And by the way, did anyone ever tell you that you look exactly like Garfield but run over and skinned and then someone threw an ugly Ferragamo sweater over you before they rushed you to the vet? Fusilli? Olive oil on Brie?

Sai, negli ultimi mesi ho mangiato tante di quelle pesche in scatola, che ieri notte ho praticamente cacato una crostata.

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

A serving size on ice cream is like a half a cup. Is that like a joke some guy put on there? Hey, come here: look what I put for the serving size. Did you see? I just did it as a joke but they're going out like that. You ever know anybody to eat a half a cup of ice cream? Hey, you wanna go grab something to eat? Ah, no. I had a half a cup of ice cream. Ya, a whole half a cup. I just kept eating and eating and eating. I must've had two spoonfuls.

His face appeared to have been massaged with an industrial cheese grater and then retouched with a glue gun.

Columbus therefore cheated on his calculations, as the examining faculty of the University of Salamanca quite correctly pointed out. He used the smallest possible circumference of the Earth and the greatest eastward extension of Asia he could find in all the books available to him, and then exaggerated even those. Had the Americas not been in the way, Columbus' expeditions would have failed utterly.