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Quotes About Exaggeration

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm prone to exaggerate when I'm sober.
~ Randy Wayne White
Necesario siempre me ha parecido una palabra exagerada
~ Ray Loriga
I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.
~ Mayim Bialik
It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.
~ Ted Cruz
I think a caricature is different than a character.
~ Natasha Rothwell
I'm good at caricature.
~ Harry Enfield
Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.
~ David Horsey
Robin is the exaggerated version of me. He's more of a cartoon character.
~ Brook Lopez
As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.
~ Frank Miller
You can tell charlatans when they say 'big' in front of everything.
~ Harper Reed
A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, 'God, he's like Brad Pitt,' and I said, 'Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt,' 'cause, you know, 'Brad Pitt' would be a bit of an overstatement.
~ Owain Yeoman
People are acting like Keith Thurman has a cape like Superman and can fly.
~ Danny Garcia
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
~ Claire Scovell LaZebnik
Trump has made claims about himself - about his charitable giving, his business success, even the size of the crowd at his inauguration - that are not supported by the facts.
~ David Fahrenthold
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
~ Franz Grillparzer
And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.
~ Raymond Chandler
She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term I'll eat my spare tyre, rim and all.
~ Raymond Chandler
The critics of the New Deal exaggerated the power of the intellectuals and also portrayed them as impractical, irresponsible, conspiratorial experimentalists, grown arrogant and publicity-conscious because of their sudden rise from obscurity to prominence.
~ Richard Hofstadter
the littleness of life that art exaggerates"?
~ Julian Barnes
Surely I have made too much of my loneliness. I thought my loneliness greater than all mankind's combined.
~ K?b? Abe
It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain of humor. But some patients at the beginning of analysis make incessant jokes about themselves, or exaggerate their difficulties in so dramatic a way that they will appear funny, while they are at the same time absurdly sensitive to any criticism. In these instances humor is used to take the sting out of an otherwise unbearable shame.
~ Karen Horney
had a wee in the Amazon. Until Richard told me I should be careful because there are some tiny fish that can swim up from the water through my urine and into my knob! Is that how amazing the Amazon is? The fish in there would really rather live in my knob than the river.
~ Karl Pilkington
but her mother's death had revealed that there was no metaphor too ostentatious for grief. It was a terrible thing and demanded embellishment.
~ Kate Atkinson