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Quotes About Exaggeration

My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.
~ Jim Carrey
Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.
~ Sue Townsend
Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
~ Mark Twain
Don't exaggerate the pain, it is a lesson in disguise.
~ Terry Mark
A cordial nature exaggerates a friend's qualities with as much pleasure as a mischievous one finds in depreciating them.
~ Marcel Proust
He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Larger than a pea? Oh, it most certainly was.
~ Marie Brennan
There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.
~ Calvin Trillin
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
~ Honore de Balzac
Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.
~ Miuccia Prada
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories... if you lick it.
~ Jack Whitehall
I'm actually pale blue: it takes me a week of sunbathing to turn white.
~ Billy Connolly
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
~ Fred Allen
As pissed as a fart in a vacuum cleaner.
~ Britney Spears
You know what they say about men with big feet...big socks.
~ Unknown
I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.
~ Amy Lee
My Top 5 Exercises: 1. Jumping to conclusions 2. Flying off the handle 3. Carrying things too far 4. Dodging responsibilities 5. Pushing my Luck
~ Unknown
Apparently beer contains female hormones. After you drink enough you can neither drive nor shut the hell up!
~ Unknown
Valentine's day has gotten blown way out of proportion. Valentine's Day just used to be for your girlfriend or your wife but now everyone's like 'Oh, happy valentine's day!' I even got a Valentine's Day card from my grandmother. How ridiculous is that? We stopped having sex years ago!
~ Greg Giraldo
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
~ Marilynne Robinson
returned wedding gifts and penned endless notes of apology to the givers and to all our would-be-turned-would-not-be wedding guests, and if I say that I felt every word of those notes carve themselves into my skin like in that scary Dolores Umbridge detention scene in the fifth Harry Potter, I'm exaggerating, but only a little.
~ Marisa de los Santos