X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Exaggeration" (164)

Page 3 of 7
Filter & Style
Image
For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are told, every word in it has three score and ten toptypsical meanings - an exaggeration, of course, but an important reminder to readers who like their fiction definite.
Philip Kitcher
Image
The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.
Tom Robbins
Image
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.
John Updike
Image
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
Mahatma Gandhi
Image
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
Clara Hughes
Image
It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come.
Whittaker Chambers
Image
I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
Jack Benny
Image
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings
Image
In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.
Moby
Image
Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?
H. P. Blavatsky
Image
It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
Mark Twain
Image
I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Image
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
Barbara Tuchman
Image
I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].
John F. Kerry
Image
Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would write non-fiction, they often accused me of exaggeration and fictionalization.
Jonathan Ames
Image
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
To exaggerate is to weaken.
Jean-Francois de La Harpe
Image
The body learns through exaggeration and contrast
Wendy Palmer
Image
Entourage is a staple LA-based show and people say it's pretty real and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.
Pauly Shore
Image
Humor is the truth wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
Stan Laurel
Image
There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace. Strange and prodigal exuberance, which soon exhausts itself by flowing!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Image
Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Image
Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.
Robert Breault
Image
Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.
Louise Hay
Previous
Next