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Quotes About Exaggeration

That's worst than gonerreha, man!
~ Ned Vizzini
In 'Bigg Boss 12' house one needs to make a mountain out of a molehill. It's an art and I don't specialise in it.
~ Neha Pendse
Fox is great at making mountains out of molehills. Hannity is the best at it.
~ Brian Stelter
I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth.
~ Bikram Choudhury
Sometimes... I can't believe what mum says or does when she's being really dramatic.
~ Aimee Osbourne
Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.
~ Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Unable to reach me and gather the real facts, rival newspapers proceeded to enlarge on the slightest item to keep the Jorgensen story moving before the public. If I sneezed, it was duly reported as an event.
~ Christine Jorgensen
It's kinda hard to get yourself into a good three-toweler when you got the dick of death.
~ Christopher Moore
To say that Effrom was not a particularly good cook was an understatement akin to saying that genocide is not a particularly effective public relations strategy.
~ Christopher Moore
It is not a large exaggeration to say that everything else in a computer exists in order to bring information swiftly to the ALU for manipulation; and for the ALU, adding is the mechanical equivalent of breathing. But
~ Tracy Kidder
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.
~ Umberto Eco
I bet having sex with her was like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.
~ L. Wilder
Raziel's sixty feet tall?" "Actually, he's only fifty-nine feet tall, but he likes to exaggerate," said Magnus. Isabelle clicked her tongue in annoyance. "Valentine raised an angel in his cellar. I don't see why you need all this space—" "Because Valentine is just WAY MORE AWESOME than me,
~ Cassandra Clare
How are you feeling?" "Like someone massaged me with a cheese grater." -Clary & Simon, pg.297-
~ Cassandra Clare
Someone ought to write a novel about me," said Lebedeva loftily. "I shouldn't care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can't abide a poor liar.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Except that her joints ached and her head hurt and it tasted like a vorcha had shit in her mouth.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
My mother is a typical Jewish mother. They sent her home from jury duty, she insisted she was guilty.
~ Cathy Ladman
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
comedy was about what was wrong with the world—people laughed because something was too big, or too small, or too much, or not enough. Quirks and exaggerations were the essence of parody. Irony and discomfort the grist for humor.
~ Gilda Radner
The idea that we should dismantle the core protections of our political system to erect a ubiquitous surveillance state for the sake of this risk is the height of irrationality. Yet exaggeration of the threat is repeated over and over.
~ Glenn Greenwald
A three-inch rain in Phoenix means three inches between drops.
~ Local joke
Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.
~ Proverb
Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything — except his own mistakes.
~ Author Unknown
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. In modern sculpture, picture, and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous; the artist works here and there, and at all points, adding and adding, instead of unfolding the unit of his thought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson