Quotes About Exaggeration

Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look. The Stealer of Souls, he said in the faraway voice of one whose ears aren't hearing what his mouth is saying, "Defeater of Empires, Swallower of Oceans, Thief of Years, The Ultimate Reality, Harvester of Mankind, the— ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. I CAN SEE MYSELF IN.

Your wife is a big hippo! My face is melting! My face is meltinnnnggg!

A Hunter-sized bowel movement on her head would go a long way toward making me feel better.

The great uncertainty of all data in war is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently—like the effect of a fog or moonshine—gives to things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.

So who turned up the volume of ignorance up to eleven?

Look out, everyone! ... We're being attacked by a giant sq ... well, no ... I'd say medium squid!

I love the absurdity of everyday life. There's so much material there for a satirist.

In Patagonia, the isolation makes it easy to exaggerate the person you are: the drinker drinks; the devout prays; the lonely grows lonelier, sometimes fatally.

Si esas personas mantienen la calma es porque están seguros de que los datos de los científicos han sido manipulados por fuerzas oscuras, y en todo caso son tan exagerados que hay que resistir valientemente las opiniones de aquellos que se llaman "catastrofistas" y aprender, como dicen, "a conservar la cordura" viviendo como antes, sin preocuparse demasiado.

He has no proper nose.

Flushed with the explosive shit of a sumo wrestler who ate Mexican food.

He often swore that if all the people who had worked for the paper in those years could appear at one time before the throne of The Almighty—if they all stood there and recited their histories and their quirks and their crimes and their deviations—there was no doubt in his mind that God himself would fall down in a swoon and tear his hair. Of course Lotterman exaggerated;

The textbook was born from analyzing actual movements, but these were still the exaggerated gestures of Europeans and Americans They portrayed 'Western (bata-kusai; lit., smelling of butter)' movements, like the way some Japanese who have lived abroad will spread their arms and shake their head when they say 'Oh no!

the moustaches on the men were just a lot of moustaches.

I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation of that emotion, and for this reason it was a temptation to exaggerate, to throw a rope of superlatives across the abyss that divided experience from its representation by anecdote.

One could go on, but with diminishing returns. MacArthur was a serial confabulator

And let's be honest, you weren't exactly harmed. I even took you home." "You dumped me on my doorstep. According to my mother, I looked half dead." "Your mother exaggerates. A third dead at most." I stared at him. Wow. Just wow.

Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?" "I'm not implying. I'm saying it.

It's my uniform. Everyone in my company wears it. It's hideous. Rose felt her hackles rise. The neon green uniform was hideous, but she didn't appreciate him pointing it out. She opened her mouth. Yet despite it, you look lovely, he said. Flattery will get you nowhere, she told him. It's not flattery, he said coldly. Flattery requires exaggeration. I'm merely stating a fact. You're a beautiful woman wearing an ugly sack of unnatural color.

He said, 'Yeah, but will I get chicks? In truckloads?

Rose pictured him standing at the boundary of the Ogletree house in that enormous fur cape, with a giant sword sticking over his shoulder, roaring at the top of his lungs and then being upset that nobody came out, and laughed.

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.