Quotes About Exaggeration

The human race exaggerates everything: its heroes, its enemies, its importance.

La razza umana esagera tutto: i propri eroi, i propri nemici, la propria importanza. Lo sapevate che i gatti dormono venti ore su ventiquattro? Non c'è da stupirsi che abbiano un aspetto migliore del mio.

either they're trying to upsell you a fifty-quid-a-head artisanal pork pie (serving this week: Peppa Pig's Uncle Bertie's left haunch, marinaded in a drizzle of preschoolers' tears) or

You said a bad word!" Lyssa hammed it up, eyes wide and limpid, and cranked her tear ducts all the way from Flood Danger: Raise the Thames Barrier to Critical Emergency: Three Gorges Spillway Eroding.

There are rumors of rats down here as big as German shepherds, the people not the dogs.

Shamu and I have arrived safely in Costa Rica. He was stopped by airport security because he carries enough artillery in his pants pockets to construct a sawed-off shotgun. Evidently, he thought we were headed to Iraq.

Onye nkuzi ewelu itali piagbusie umuaka. One of the ways an emphasis is laid in Ibo is by exaggeration, so that the teacher in the refrain might not actually have flogged the children to death.

There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.

I can't do anything in moderation.

With 'River Monsters,' it sometimes didn't matter if the story was made up or exaggerated.

Oh man," Powell said, laughing in disbelief. "Do they fire lightning out of their asses, too? Do they cum nuclear jelly? What else, huh?

For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.

Being in Christ is both gift and task, privilege and responsibility. Exaggerate the gift, and you risk antinomian complacency; exaggerate the responsibility, and you risk legalistic anxiety.

How big are muffins going to get before we all join hands across America? Have you seen them? They're huge. "Yeah, I'll take a coffee and... Oh, my God! Yeah, I'll have the beanbag chair with raisins.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.

I was so high, I needed a stepladder to scratch my own ass.

Clumsy? Why, I've had more women than you, you whelp. Well. Maybe not more than you, but certainly more than Ewan. (Lochlan) That's not saying much. My left boot has had more women than Ewan. (Braden)

Harriet greeted Chase with all the enthusiasm she would have shown a chin hair.

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

There is nothing remarkable about this 'guac', about any 'guac', and California needs to calm the fuck down.

The Paleozoic was followed by the Permian extinction, when 95 percent of all life on Earth—plants and animals on both land and sea—died. Just like that. Just when they were beginning to get the hang of it. (To be fair, the period of extinction lasted millions of years, so "just like that" is an exaggeration, but scientists still don't know for sure why it happened.)