Quotes About Exaggeration

Let the public discover that 5 per cent of your advertising is exaggeration, and it immediately suspects the other 95 per cent.

It is so much like a movie, Irina can't stand it.

Chip Robbins, how many times have I told you not to yell out for me unless you're being stabbed with a pitchfork?

Man Rhage muttered, someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick. Until it broke.

Yeah, we could strap a small car to Lassiter's back and make him run around by the pool—

Three days. During which there was enough drama going on to make War and Peace looked like a comic book.

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.

The press, when they get a hold of something, they twist things.

There are some people in this world who always turn and twist the spoken word out of proportion.

I've definitely met nightmare Hollywood types who think they're getting twenty million dollars a picture when they're not. But they act like it. And they just insult everybody.

I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact.

I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.

Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We in the ivory tower ultimately have to realize that in some sense we have to sing for our supper.

How's Alison getting on?' Conway snorted. 'Tucked up in the sick room like she's dying in some season finale. Little fadey voice on her and all. She's having a great old time.

That schema builds up the perception of danger by exaggerating any hint of a threat, so that small squalls become major hurricanes in the mind. The island woman had the opposite understanding: real danger may come, so you do everything you can to prepare, but once you've done what you can, just relax.

When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

To hear Alice Keppel talk about her escape from France, one would think she had swum the Channel, with her maid between her teeth.

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

The bigger a man's gun the smaller his doodlewick.

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

He had spoken with such absolute confidence that I knew he had to be blowing this out of his rectal orifice.

You are totally overromanticizing dirt.