Quotes About Exaggeration

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

The art of advertisement ... has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

The drama of her delivery was so deliberately hyperbolic it wasn't even funny. It should have been funny, yet it wasn't.

It was just a kiss – " "Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.

Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.

Like so many of our neighbors who latched onto tragedy to stand out from the crowd -- slavery, incest, a suicide -- I had exaggerated the ethnic chip on my shoulder for effect. I've learned since that tragedy is not to be hoarded. Only the untouched, the well-fed and contented, could possibly covet suffering like a designer jacket. I'd readily donate my story to the Salvation Army so that some other frump in need of color could wear it away.

No such thing as larger-than-life, Kellogg. There's only life-size, and any magnification is just other people's bullshit.

Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.

I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.

A la vérité, il forçait un peu sur le sublime : c'était un homme du XIXe siècle qui se prenait, comme tant d'autres, comme Victor Hugo lui-même, pour Victor Hugo.

Yes," I said. "It is a bit over-the-top." "That's their world," Brian said with a shrug. "They seem to enjoy histrionics.

He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.

Nonsense on stilts

That trout lay shattered into a thousand fragments - I say a thousand, but they may only have been nine hundred. I did not count them.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a little exaggeration of them - which I think is really the way to do an impression.

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.

I always say that drag queens are like an exaggeration of women, and I'm like an exaggeration of drag queens. People ask, 'Why do you do your makeup so differently?' and I always say, 'Well, in a subversive art form, ask yourself why so many drag queens do their makeup exactly the same.' If you can do anything, why does everybody do the same thing?

Goodness great-shoes! A literal bloodbath, dahling?

No elaborate stories of monsters and quicksand and lightning and having to cross rivers of hot lava by jumping on the heads of ravenous lava earwigs the size of cows, with pincers made out of giant steel knives?

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.