Quotes About Exaggeration

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.

If I've learned anything from social media, it's truly that the most irrelevant people always say the most absurd stuff.

A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

The reality of it is you have to be over the top if you want to be noticed.

You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

The value today of philosophy to physics seems to me to be something like the value of early nation-states to their peoples. It is only a small exaggeration to say that, until the introduction of the post office, the chief service of nation-states was to protect their peoples from other nation-states. The insights of philosophers have occasionally benefited physicists, but generally in a negative fashion—by protecting them from the preconceptions of other philosophers.

I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.

I was hamming it up so much you could virtually taste the salad too.

Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging.

All that social media hyperbole is just so fake.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

Everything I say is true and from the heart. I exaggerate some things, but the core base of it is just facts.

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

He snorted. "He thinks killing a day-old hydra has made him a hero." None of the songs had ever mentioned the Vandalus Hydra being one day old: it diminished the story more than a little.

It looked as though someone had come through with a pump and inflated everything in the scene by thirty percent, highway and cars and all, before going away satisfied.

The business of courtship is like a tango: absurd and pure embellishment.

People who say it's a long story mean it's a stupid short one that they're too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell.

I'm part Latin, so everything in the Latin culture is - there's a lot of hyperbole, and there's a lot of melodrama.

The Zambesi is a big river; there's no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run.

Para un joven adepto un poco perplejo, que no estaba, sin embargo, falto de experiencia en el dominio de las cosas prohibidas, tal suposición no sólo era extravagante, sino que resultaba seductora hasta el punto de imponérsele con toda la apariencia lógica de la verdad.