Exaggeration Quote by David Leavitt Download Open image “I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.” — David Leavitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exaggeration Inspirational Looks Thinking
To be honest, you can't really make someone look worse than they are or better than they are. — Tayshia Adams Copy Share Image
Anyone can make anyone else look bad if they really want to pull things apart enough. — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible. — Jorma Taccone Copy Share Image
I definitely feel that if somebody is struggling with themselves and how they look, they need to really channel the positivity within. — Nia Jax Copy Share Image
“It looks worse than you can imagine!” “I can imagine some pretty bad things!” “That’s why I said worse!” “Oh.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look, — Ali MacGraw Copy Share Image
“Realize that anyone who tries to put you down about your appearance is assuming that it is your job to please them visually. Once… — Skeptifem Copy Share Image
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a happiness filled… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Hope had stolen into his life just as he was growing comfortable with despair.” — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Cautiously his foot explored, wiggled as it could, and finally felt warm flesh under the pants leg.” — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Fuck anybody who’d call a hill a mountain and name it after themselves.” — A.D. Aliwat Copy Share Image
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate… — Ramez Naam 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 stuff about… — Wallace Stegner 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 less valuable… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation,… — Robin Marantz Henig 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 world. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
