As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is a very weird impulse. It was the exploration of something overtly pop, to the point where pop is kitsch.… — Kelley Walker Copy Share Image
Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m… — Christian de Duve Copy Share Image
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and… — Wayne Knight Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say… — Buck Rodgers Copy Share Image
Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great… — Stephen Leigh Copy Share Image
“A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like throwing grenades and pulling out… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family… — John Irving Copy Share Image
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux 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
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all… — Mark Lloyd Copy Share Image
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
Traffic counting was very boring and cold to sit out on the streets of New Haven in five pairs of pants -… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of… — Marilyn Waring Copy Share Image
The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most fun is to inhabit the world where cartoon physics is king. And that just means that things move with kind… — Chris Wedge Copy Share Image
In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
