“He piled fib on top of lie on top of exaggeration and cemented it all with hyperbole.” — Tom Angleberger Copy Share Image
With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more. — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
“Hyperbole is an excellent red flag on the route to real wisdom. Conduct” — Caroline Webb Copy Share Image
The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Love’s language is hyperbole, but whispered, sibilant similes and promises sotto voce. It’s easy to imagine you’ve misheard,” — Richard Hoffman Copy Share Image
We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support? — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
“There is no need for hyperbole. I did NOT dump you. I peeled your mask off like a banana peel, did not… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Hyperbole is sometimes necessary to get at the truth. (It seems odd, doesn't it, that we have to lie to tell the… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That term was used with hyperbole about the parts of the health care bill where doctors are mandated, if people are on… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Any time you make an analogy to horrific people in history, Mussolini or Hitler, people say, 'Oh, you're exaggerating, you're talking about,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
“This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole. Hyperbole is usually harmless, but in some cases it has been known to… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
If you read Donald Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," you know that he likes to create leverage, he likes to… — Wendy Sherman Copy Share Image
“A real friend, he'd say, is the one who, when you say you need for them to kill someone for you, asks… — S. Bear Bergman Copy Share Image
I am not a difficult man by any stretch, and I'm saying that with a full and honest inventory going on. I'm… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
My - mine is based on the fact that Bill Clinton has done - and I'm - this sounds like hyperbole, but… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Politics is full of hyperbole. Politics is full of hyperbole and partisanship, and every four to eight-year cycle, those that disagree with… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too,… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
