Quotes About Exaggeration

In Virginia... all geese are swans.

Like most incurable fibbers, she had an extravagant regard for the truth, which she expressed by sending up signals meant to indicate that she was lying.

His neck as he stretched it upwards and backwards, felt like the neck of an antediluvian tortoise.

'I can always relate to tampon commercials'...said no girl ever.

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

Nobody forced me to look any way. I just exaggerated what was already there.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes.

The media exaggerate little things.

Marjorie Luke was funny and huge, or at least I remember her that way.

The term itself—my life—is a desperate overstatement.

There's the life and there's the consumer event. Everything around us tends to channel our lives toward some final reality in print or on film. Two lovers quarrel in the back of a taxi and a question becomes implicit in the event. Who will write the book and who will play the lovers in the movie? Everything seeks its own heightened version.

They turned up the volume of the inner monologue, magnified qualities already present to great excess, made people so much themselves that they couldn't stand it. "And how can we lose this maddening

He wore a blazer, or more accurately, three XL blazers sewn together. I could fit my whole body into one of his pant legs. My tiny thirty-two caliber Seecamp in my boot heel wouldn't do shit to this man. If I shot him, the bullets would wet themselves and run away, crying. I

I'm guessing GoLYTELY isn't a taste sensation." "They claim it's chocolate-flavored. More like chalk-flavored. I'd rather drink a gallon of paint.

Let us never forget that truth, distorted and exaggerated, can become the mother of the most dangerous heresies.

La mémoire d'un enfant exagère les distances et les hauteurs.

The abusive man has another reason to exaggerate and ridicule his partner's statements (and mine): He wants to avoid having to think seriously about what she is saying and struggle to digest it.

O vinho ela aceita. Também aceita a lagosta, fala lagostim. Mas precisa lembrar a estatística das criancinhas morrendo de fome no Nordeste, esse assunto de Nordeste às vezes exorbita.

could be stretching the truth

After a tragedy, those with even the slightest connections to it often exaggerate their involvement and importance.