“With a touch of exaggeration, we can say that in Africa—in the beginning is not the Word, but the chameleon.” — Eva Žilková Copy Share Image
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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
It's not an exaggeration to say that Texas gets a lot more out of being part of the United States than the… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration — Bill Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and… — Criss Jami 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
People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life." I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a… — Alix Kates Shulman 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 large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
“Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration ... and in the end coming to despise truth itself… — Joseph Conrad 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
“As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life: ~people applaud you incessantly.… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
"Entourage" is a staple LA-based show and people say it's pretty real and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I know this might sound like an exaggeration, but Helio Gracie was to Jiu Jitsu what Albert Einstein was to physics. — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they?… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
I had a dream that my boyfriend went back to his ex¦I woke up and giggled because you dont pick up a… — Shalini Copy Share Image
“Exaggeration is a standard peculiarity of man. To deprecate is often a form of exaggeration which people do not notice, because it… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality." — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the… — Georg Ebers Copy Share Image
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made… — Walter Bagehot 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
“There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation. — Karol Mikuli Copy Share Image
There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive… We must not resort to the flame where only light is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
