Quotes About Exaggeration

Oppenheimer had, in his own mind at least, exaggerated his role in the making of the atomic bomb and, correspondingly, exaggerated his guilt, seeing himself as, in the Bhagavad-Gita, Death the destroyer of worlds. Von Neumann agreed. "Some people profess guilt to claim credit for the sin," von Neumann liked to tell Ulam.

over-inflated expectations

She has BIG feet! Oh my god, have you seen Sandra Bullocks feet? They're like the size of rulers!

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

Considering the size of the universe, we might conclude that God likes to exaggerate!

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt!

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

I have a rare form of body dysmorphia in which I absolutely can't stand how good I look.

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.

She was so fat that her belly button makes an echo.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.

How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! ...no eight!

I had a chicken finger that was so big, it was a chicken hand.

That woman in the shampoo commercial - she's happy. She's... she's too happy.

Some sarcasm is best told simply. Some humor is best told big and some is best told small.

Now I'm not an expert at mathematics, but I calculated it would take at least three of me to take on one third of one of them, even if they were attacking me with just their arse.