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Quotes About Exaggeration

The best advice I've ever heard about anything is this: Don't exaggerate! When you work hard, when you sleep long, when you love much, when you are very sad, always remember this advice: Don't exaggerate!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Gronk dancing topless was ice cream and cookies compared to this.
~ Unknown
IPCC authors were exaggerating or misrepresenting the science for effect.
~ Michael Shellenberger
In response to the IPCC's decision to let the exaggerators write the Summary for Policymakers, Tol resigned. "I simply thought it was incredible," he said. "I told Chris Field, the chairman, about this, and I quietly withdrew.
~ Michael Shellenberger
It was odd --unsettling, actually-- how love magnified everything. Small joy was turned into overwhelming happiness; worry became heart-stopping fear. It was as if love became a magnifying glass turned on the heart, taking whatever was there and making it appear many times its normal size.
~ Michael Thomas Ford
said the president in his first week in the White House during a late-night call. "It's all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.
~ Michael Wolff
They take everything I've ever said and exaggerate it," said the president in his first week in the White House during a late-night call. "It's all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.
~ Michael Wolff
It's all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.
~ Michael Wolff
Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Eine ideale Lüge besteht aus der Aneinanderreihung verschiedener wahrer Versatzstücke, an denen man bestimmte Auslassungen vornimmt; im Grunde genommen setzt sie sich im Wesentlichen aus Auslassungen in Verbindung mit einigen wohldosierten Übertreibungen zusammen.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Una mentira ideal consiste en la yuxtaposición de diferentes elementos de verdad entre los cuales se efectúan algunas elipsis; de hecho está compuesta esencialmente de omisiones, a veces con algunas exageraciones bien dosificadas
~ Michel Houellebecq
Drie pijlen om een volwassenen everzwijn mee neer te schieten. Dat was bijna hetzelfde als een eland met een bosje bloemen doodmeppen.
~ Michelle Paver
I had lied so much lately that I was honestly surprised my pants weren't literally made of fire.
~ Unknown
We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
niepotrzebna pochwaÅ'a wiodÅ'a z czasem tylko do przesadzonych planów na przyszÅ'o?? i bankructwa.
~ Unknown
I'd thought I'd felt like shit that day, but really I'd barely even entered the intestine.
~ Unknown
One of the great things about women's magazines is that they accept that drinking water and sitting quietly will make your breasts huge and lips plump up to the size of two bratwursts. Maybe
~ Mindy Kaling
her newly coiffed hair now jutting from her head like feathers on a badly plucked chicken.
~ Monica Wood
If he laid on the Irish any thicker, she'd be drowning in shamrocks.
~ Nalini Singh
Indeed, only what does not have a tangible measure can easily be exaggerated in importance. This is the basic reason why the privileged elite in every society has always consisted—and, I submit, will always consist—of members who perform unproductive services under one form or another. Whatever the title under which this elite may receive its share, this share will never be that of worker's wage—even if, as is possible, it may be called by that name.
~ Unknown
Reading about Japan in the West is often like looking at a funhouse mirror through a kaleidoscope.
~ Unknown
His whole face tended towards the nose — it was what, in common parlance, is known as a "pitcher-mug.
~ Nikolai Gogol
But Doug had the same clichéd overreaction to wealth that defined most bearded men his age.
~ Noah Hawley
Everybody overstates his case, particularly when he is anxious to do something which he considers useful.
~ Norman Douglas