Exaggerated Quotes - Page 6

• 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 a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Strong, Women

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• 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 everyone was as perverted as he was, so I didn't miss a beat. "We prefer blender beaters for our kitchen utensil kink," I said with a straight face. Bones hid his smile behind his hand, but Ian looked intrigued. "I haven't tried that ... oh, you're lying, aren't you?" "Ya think?" I asked with a snort. Ian gave a sigh of exaggerated patience and glanced at Bones. "Being related to her through you is a real trial.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Lying, Real, Thinking

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• Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

  Daniel Handler

  Want, Way, Flattery

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• One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, Knows

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.49, Hamilton Books

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• Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.

  Julian Barnes

  Love Is, Thinking, May

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• Our expectation of the gratitude of others for what we've done for them is sometimes exaggerated because of our deep desire for appreciation and approval. When our good work or good deeds go unrewarded by hoped for praise, we feel like failures so we treat those who denied us our due as betrayers.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Expectations

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• Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.

  Franz Boas

  Teaching, Other Cultures, Civilization

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• An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in. His over-powering impulse is to gyrate before his fellow men, flapping his wings and emitting defiant yells. This being forbidden by the police of all civilized nations, he takes it out by putting his yells on paper. Such is the thing called self-expression.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Artist, Self

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.466, Vintage

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• Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the departure from truly living your part and the beginning of exaggerated false acting. Therefore, no matter how much you act, how many parts you take, you should never allow yourself any exception to the rule of using your own feelings. To break that rule is the equivalent of killing the person you are portraying, because you deprive him of a palpitating, living, human soul, which is the real source of life for a part.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Real, Artist, Exception To The Rule

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• You can't be a full tranny every day of the week that's an exaggerated part of my personality.

  Katy Perry

  Personality, Week, Days Of The Week

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• I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.

  Eero Saarinen

  Messages, Building, Conviction

  Eero Saarinen, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Donald Albrecht (2006). “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future”, p.353, Yale University Press

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• I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.

  Lydia Lunch

  Reflection, Glasses, Mirrors

  Lydia Lunch (1997). “Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary”, Creation Publishing Group

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• I feel a horror for exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when the moment comes that one asks something, or has need of something, the responce is not worth a biscuit.

  Brian Thompson

  Needs, Biscuits, Horror

  Brian Thompson (2000). “A monkey among crocodiles: the life, loves and lawsuits of Mrs Georgina Weldon”

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• I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.

  Albert Einstein

  Personality, Passionate, Unjust

  "My Credo" by Albert Einstein, 1932.

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• I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Attachment, America

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.312

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• My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Advice, Curiosity

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• The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. ... A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously.

  H. L. Mencken

  Adventure, Sacrifice, Men

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• I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just mobbin like that.

  Drake

  Causes, Napkins, Bragging

  Song: Headlines, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enough to sting. “You need to be more careful,” he growled. “Keep interfering in my business and you might get hurt.” I said sweetly as I continued to Jesse's room, “The last man who swatted me like that is rotting in his grave.” “I have no doubt about it.” His voice was more satisfied then contrite.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Past, Men

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Iron Kissed”, p.109, Penguin

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• What about this?" I held up a battered copy of Beauty and the Beast. "It sounds romantic." Xavier wrinkled his nose. "Disney... I don't think so." "Why not?" "Because if anyone found out, I'd never live it down." "I won't tell if you don't," I pleaded, and Xavier shook his head in defeat. "The things I do for you," He said with an exaggerated sigh.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Thinking, Sound, Why Not

  Alexandra Adornetto (2012). “Heaven: Number 3 in series”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, Weakness, Fame

  "Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962.

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• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Stress, Men, Weak Man

  Of Human Bondage ch. 39 (1915)

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• Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

  Paul Lynde

  Comedy, Realism, Believability

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• Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

  Christopher Lasch

  Birthday, Character, Age

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

  Ernest Istook

  Agreement, Australia, Important

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