Quotes About Exaggeration

The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it... !!

The press no longer exaggerated the incidence of minor accidents

Cuando uno está borracho, va por ahí contando su historia. El talento de un hombre equivale a la historia que vende de mesa en mesa cuando está borracho.

Looking round the room I found there were so many false eyelashes flapping at me that I was beginning to feel a draught.

This is the culture of the micro-aggression, where people literally seek out opportunities to be offended....Victim status is so desirable that it's constantly faked or exaggerated, and claims that one is not a victim are met with indignation.

Fear cannot be trusted...It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest.

Abbott has always had a knack of sidestepping blame for his own hyperbole. Even wild exaggerations are rarely held against him. He retracts a little and is forgiven a lot. "What you've got is constant colour and movement," says his old boss John Hewson. "He gets right in your face. He exaggerates; he grabs the headlines, even if he knows that the next day he's gonna have to back that off.

Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live, Pinocchio, and save the baloney for lunch.

Leeches are singing in my asshole.

Her: So how was your trip in? You: Well, I was originally going to fly, but then this tiger offered to carry me very gently in her mouth. I said OK, but you know what? She wasn't gentle at all. One of her teeth pierced my small intestine, so now, on top of everything else, I have to shit in a bag every day for the rest of my life! Her: Well, that is just awesome. We're all so glad you made it.

them. "You said it was how big?

Le dije que me gustaba la comida picante. No sé por qué tuve que afirmar semejante idiotez si es mentira. Voy poniendo cucharada tras cucharada de yogur en la comida. No hay nada que hacer. Cada vez me pasa igual: las papilas gustativas se me achicharran y se mueren; el rostro se me pone rojo como una remolacha; mi cabeza se me antoja una casa en llamas y el tracto digestivo empieza a retorcerse y quejarse de dolor como una boa constrictor que se acaba de tragar un cortacésped.

Without the balancing setting of everyday life all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad. Quickly you become hysterical. Consequently I can't tell whether the news coming out of my home is really as bad as it appears to be, or whether objects perceived from three thousand miles away are subject to exaggerations of size and color.

Zora," George Thomas informed me, "you come to de right place if lies is what you want. Ah'm gointer lie up a nation." Charlie Jones said, "Yeah, man. Me and my sworn buddy Gene Brazzle is here. Big Moose done come down from de mountain." "Now, you gointer hear lies above suspicion," Gene added.

Louie Anderson thinks my thing is the absurdness of reality. That's what we do on 'Portlandia' all the time. I try to bring that absurdness of reality to everything.

I have done a lot of animated stuff over a 30-year period, and you do have to go much bigger on that stuff in order for it to come across.

Nuestras ridiculeces son causadas en gran medida por un bello sentimiento, una virtud o unas facultades llevadas al extremo. El orgullo que no se refina con el trato del gran mundo se transforma en rigidez que se apega a simples pequeñeces en vez de crecer en un círculo de sentimientos elevados.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

I exaggerate but only to revive the dying art of hyperbole.

Muriel sometimes put her emotions on highest exhibit by exaggerating a suppression of them.

Even so, it was a goodish yarn, with plenty of derring-do, and I added some derring-didn' t-really-but-it-sounds-good, just to keep up her glowing opinion of me.

Exaggeration is a standard peculiarity of man. To deprecate is often a form of exaggeration which people do not notice, because it appears to be its opposite.

In general, those from outside the southern culture built a style around exaggerations of southern music, and missed the lonesome hillbilly and blues feel that was its core. In the quest for abandon, they also failed to understand that southern music is lazy music—at any tempo.

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