Avoid Quote by Terry Gilliam

Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.

— Terry Gilliam

I'm prone to hyperbole.

— Ty Burrell

Hyperbole is a thousand times better than exaggeration.

— Steve Carell

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

— George Will

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where…

— George Orwell

“Avoid fancy words…If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by…

— Anonymous

Most unpleasant metaphor. Please avoid it in the future.

— Cheshire Cat

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

— George Orwell

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English…

— James Fallows

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

— Howard Hodgkin

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

— David Ogilvy