Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin.… — Amber Rose Copy Share Image
Brody cannot believe the size of the creature, and with a classic, practical understatement tells Quint his assessment: You're gonna need a… — Roy Scheider Copy Share Image
Films like 'The Godfather,' 'Chinatown' and 'The Exorcist' brought a realism and currency and understatement to their genres that we wanted for… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement. — Jil Sander Copy Share Image
To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
To say that my dad pushed me is an understatement. I was never naturally drawn to football. — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Richard [Carrier] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop. — Ben Watt Copy Share Image
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess - perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up. — Susan Brownmiller Copy Share Image
“Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIM--that's bad” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Here`s what I`m curious about. For the president of Mexico, this man, Donald Trump, is, it`s probably not an understatement to say,… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that… — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Billions of years ago God was creating universes and life; thousands of years ago he was creating angry floods, sin-saving human sacrifices… — Trevor Treharne Copy Share Image
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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