"Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is…" — Bill Moyers

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This quote is filed under Hyperbole Quotes, one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably… — Anthony Bourdain
• Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental… — Gregg Easterbrook
• Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day… — David Foster Wallace
• I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. — Frances Mayes
• With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more. — Paul Vixie
• From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in… — Lewis H. Lapham
• Hyperbole is something Id better avoid. — Terry Gilliam
• Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies. — George Will
• I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole. — Ron Chernow
• In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words… — Richard W. Fisher
• And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated… — John F. Kennedy
• Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support? — Sean Hannity

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