Exaggerated Quotes

192 quotes by 175 authors

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want... — Daniel Handler
Shame on you, Crispin. Married how long, and you haven't spanked your wife with a metal spatula yet?" I'd gotten used to Ian's assumption that… — Jeaniene Frost
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. — William Graham Sumner
Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make… — Donna Karan
What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a tendency to go forward,… — Francoise Gilot
Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped… — Jemima Khan
Sometimes I feel like a human pin cushion. Every painful emotion hits me with ridiculously exaggerated force. And the anxiety feels like hands inside of… — Juliana Hatfield
The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation… — Simon Schama
In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is… — Dennis Prager
Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes,… — Masashi Kishimoto
My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was… — Thomas Kretschmann
Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. — Grace Darling
Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself. — Mary Lynn Rajskub
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to… — Ernest Istook
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities. — Donald G. Mitchell
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. — Paul McCartney
The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated. — Ahmed Chalabi
We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much… — Katherine Boo
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing. — Marcia Angell
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. — Mark Twain

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