Quotes About Exaggeration

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.

If I felt any better I'd be unconscious.

I have always found that the only kind of statement worth making is an overstatement. A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries further.

If you go to that unnecessary extreme, it makes a tragic, isolated incident appear to be a major crisis and will spark a press and social media frenzy," Kalb said. "Let's be reasonable, Duncan. I'm sure you can investigate this and keep a low profile at the same time.

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

For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.

THE 7 FORMULAS OF HUMOR: 1. POW's -- plays on words 2. Reverses (quick switch in audience point of view) 3. Triples (build to exaggerated finale) 4. Incongruity (pairing two logical but unconventional ideas) 5. Stupidity (so audience feels superior) 6. Paired phrases (using antonyms, homonyms, synonyms) 7. Physical abuse (slapstick)

But Mrs. John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself;—more narrow-minded and selfish.

Everyone knows you can't see death cooties. Take my word for it, that couch has the biggest, fattest death cooties that ever existed. That couch has the mother of all death cooties. – Lula

Good thing he's dead, Lula said, or that would have hurt like the devil.

Am I to assume you would rather not have us as clients? Let me think about that for a nanosecond, Dickie said. Yes! Last time you were in my office you tried to kill me. That's an exaggeration. Maim you, yes. Kill you, probably not.

I did such a gigantic eye roll I almost fell over.

And here's the good part: He got a tongue could measure twenty-one inches. Bet Mrs. Giraffe likes that one.

Sliced off like a chicken neck and stuck with a hatpin. Reminded me of my husband." Lula leaned forward so she could whisper. "You talking about size? Was your man's part that big?" "Heck no," Grandma said. "His part was that dead.

His can of pepper spray was bigger than my can of pepper spray.

Every time I get social with you I end up all by myself, naked, in the middle of the street." I rolled my eyes. "That only happened once…and you weren't naked. You were wearing socks and a shirt." "I was speaking figuratively. If you want to get specific, what about the time you locked me in a freezer truck with three corpses? What about the time you ran over me with the Buick?" I threw my hands into the air. "Oh sure, bring up the Buick.

I rolled my eyes so far into the back of my head I saw myself thinking.

She looked like the senior version of an inflatable sex toy doll that needed more air.

Grant Dalton, constantly, whenever he gets asked something in the media about Oracle, he makes the statement that we have got unlimited resources, and we can do anything we like. It is just complete crap.

Basically, I want the most unnatural look possible.

I think the Covid-19 crisis has been blown out of proportion and has created an unnecessary fear psychosis.

Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.

I cannot stand watching daily soaps that have a lot of rona-dhona and unrealistic drama in them.

There is no overacting, only untrue acting.