By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our… — Ahmed Yassin Copy Share Image
Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without… — Walther Bothe Copy Share Image
My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is the political pundits' stock in trade: nobody built a loyal readership on equivocation. — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration,… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offending the truth, and in part… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration. — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
