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
To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story. — Emily Procter Copy Share Image
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations. — Russell Page Copy Share Image
To say that I loved school would be an understatement. It was my oasis, my sanctuary. — Janet Mock 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
We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement. — Jil Sander Copy Share Image
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
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable… — Anthony Boucher Copy Share Image
Emo means different things to different people. Actually, that's a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people—Like… — Andy Greenwald Copy Share Image
That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and… — Steven Harrison Copy Share Image
Hours is an understatement. I honestly don't know how the director and editor decide each week what actually makes it on the… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
“Even the English, who understand it, are not exactly riotously amused by the understatement. At best, a well-timed, well-turned understatement only raises… — Kate Fox 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
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
Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines 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
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Is Understatement 101 a course in medical school?" "Of course. It's the prereq for Lying Through One's Teeth.” — Jodi Picoult 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 a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires---outmatched is n understatement. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being… — P. G. Wodehouse 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
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“My wife said you would be here,” he muttered lowly. “You and a boy … though I don’t think this counts as… — Jane Washington 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
To say I live a cursed life is an understatement. I have to get up every day and work with people who… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
I think time management and dedication are the main factors along with being an organized person. To say I was highly ambitious… — Ashley Purdy Copy Share Image
“The reasons for our prolific understating are not hard to discover: our strict prohibitions on earnestness, gushing, emoting and boasting require almost… — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in… — Antonin Scalia 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
I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Cristal go by the cases, wait hold up that was racist I would prefer the Aces, ain't no different when you taste… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and… — Bret Harte 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
When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
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