Quotes About Exaggeration

I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.

I only write about stuff that sort of happens to me, and then I blow it up into a much funnier version.

Mary Katherine Gallagher is an exaggerated version of me, how I felt when I was little.

A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that next level. They're not based on anyone I've ever met, but they are these extreme versions of something.

Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.

The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he [Lucan] meant to rise still higher, is perfect bombast.

they were all sweating like hookers in a confessional

I mean, stars and stones. Two million bucks would buy you a lot of ramen.

Rarely have we seen so much made over so little.

Odious people will always talk and make a to-do over nothing. It is always like that.

At least she'd finally figured out why the green leggings she wore were called tights. It was because they were tight. Extremely tight. So very tight that she felt like a sausage about to split open on a blazing hot barbecue grill.

We just went out for dinner. We didn't participate in a Roman orgy, I swear.

To an ignorant, a small garden is a forest.

It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron.

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

Why that's a colossal fib. I'm a very kind person. I've never hurt man, beast or child. Except when I had to. I belong to the Bare-Hand-Wolf-Choker Association.

The news of my death is greatly exaggerated.

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what BEING STABBED?

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.

This is the biggest damn IPod I've ever seen, Claire said, which made him choke on his beer. Kidding. I have seen a jukebox before.