“The way you walk is slash and burn. Like understatement's now a crime.” — Justin Quinn Copy Share Image
Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIM--that's bad” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up. — Susan Brownmiller Copy Share Image
To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
“Without question, his picture did not do him justice, but again, he was dead when it was taken” — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist. — Helena Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Hours is an understatement. I honestly don't know how the director and editor decide each week what actually makes it on the… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and… — Steven Harrison Copy Share Image
“Even the English, who understand it, are not exactly riotously amused by the understatement. At best, a well-timed, well-turned understatement only raises… — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
Richard [Carrier] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that… — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
She reached up and curled her fingers into mine. “He should take you to dinner.” To say that the mere thought horrified… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I'm glad you're still upright, Charles, and the only reason you are is because she didn't have any silver. She'd have staked… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“You said I was pretty, before." "Did I?" A new laugh escaped him, mirthless. "How unoriginal. I must be the master of… — Shana Abé Copy Share Image
It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The understatement rule means that a debilitating and painful chronic illness must be described as ‘a bit of a nuisance’; a truly… — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
To say that my dad pushed me is an understatement. I was never naturally drawn to football. — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Is Understatement 101 a course in medical school?" "Of course. It's the prereq for Lying Through One's Teeth.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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