Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd be exaggerating to say that the essence of who I am today is a result of the weight… — Jake Steinfeld Copy Share Image
The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I just did 101 shows in 86 different cities in America and Europe and Canada, and I'm not lying or exaggerating when… — David Cross Copy Share Image
Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
No matter how you feel about your extended family or family gatherings you will be attending. This is because now the ultimate… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers,… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
“Exaggerating Your Gestures “Have you ever walked through a door and been jumped on by an over-enthusiastic dog with big paws who… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I can certainly be surprised by turns a story takes, but usually not once I'm actually in the writing/drawing stage. In the… — Jessica Abel Copy Share Image
Exaggerating?" Silk sounded shocked. "You don't mean to say that horses can actually lie, do you? Hettar shrugged. "Of course. They lie… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I found out that detectives are really good dressers. I'm not even exaggerating. The woman I interviewed had these fantastic fuschia suede… — Kristin Lehman Copy Share Image
We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I think I am generally prone to exaggerating characters, taking them to a ridiculous extent. But you do also meet those people… — Julia Davis Copy Share Image
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits. — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
“Siblings. Always exaggerating, always teasing. Can’t live without them, can’t put them up for sale on eBay.” — Jo Raven Copy Share Image
You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint,… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Whatever Congress decides to do, in all fairness the only ones who should vote on this issue are members who themselves have… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So,… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
“Ellie had a feeling he thought she was exaggerating. "I am not jesting. Yesterday she presented me with two lists. The first… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I'm exaggerating, and the journalist… — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
