Quotes About Exaggeration

You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.

There is always over-the-top drama in television.

A lot of the comedic work Ive done has been over-the-top, sketchy stuff.

I do tend to overdo everything.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Surfing on the Internet is like sex everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more.

Carol Doda's Breasts are up there the way one imagines Electra's should have been, two incredible mammiform protrusions, no mere pliable mass of feminine tissues and fats there but living arterial sculpture––viscera spigot––great blown-up aureate morning glories.

Since the beginning of time man has done three things when he communicates both in speaking and in the written form. He will Generalize, Omit & Exaggerate.

On Ecstasy, Joan Rivers looks like Pamela Anderson, so imagine what Pamela Anderson looked like.

Truthful hyperbole' is a contradiction in terms. It's a way of saying, 'It's a lie, but who cares?' 

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

I think they should rename the place Unnecessary Violent Overreaction." In

overreacting melodramatic nonsense.

I did not kill twenty dragons. Maybe two. On two separate occasions, and I had to.

another tactic being used to leverage more grant money from Congress—namely, the exaggeration of threats. Since the 1960s, environmental scientists have sequentially forecast existential threats from overpopulation, pollution, extinctions, global cooling, acid rain, global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion, low-level ozone increases, and fine-scale particulates. Ocean acidification looms on the horizon as the next threat.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.