Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do. — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
I think it would be over-exaggeration to think that there are millions of viruses ready to jump on us and bring us… — Anthony Fauci 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
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
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration. — Mark Twain 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
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
It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
My one piece of advice to anyone trying to do acting - this would just be to keep going. It sounds really… — Ana Mulvoy-Ten 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
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
I'm allergic to over-promising. I'm allergic to exaggeration, because I've been in schools for a large part of my life, and I… — Larry Cuban Copy Share Image
“That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell… — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech… — George Will 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
In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too,… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The Snowdenistas' exaggeration stems from a conflation of self-criticism with self-hatred. In their eyes, democracy, the rule of law and constitutional government… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
White people deserve to be hit, deserve to be the victims of crime and acts of terror because they have for so… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community… — Orhan Pamuk 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
I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent… — John Walker Lindh Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Am I to assume you would rather not have us as clients?" "Let me think about that for a nanosecond," Dickie said.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the… — Jonathan Carroll 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
I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to… — Anne Beatts Copy Share Image
The third major characteristic of God - "infinitude" - is the catchall, the universal modifier of Christian theology. God is not merely… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The responsibility for maintaining the composition of the blood in respect to other constituents devolves largely upon the kidneys. It is no… — Homer Smith Copy Share Image
In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It… — Paul Davies 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
