Exaggeration Quotes - Page 9

• I knew the human exaggeration for sorrow-a broken heart.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Heart, Broken, Sorrow

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• Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

  John Flanagan

  Inspirational, Eyebrows, Everyday

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• If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?

  Alain de Botton

  Falling In Love, Lying, Believe

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I really think I shall commence chapter forty-four," he said, patting his hands together. "I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie. Constance, my dear?" "Yes, Uncle Julian?" "I am going to say that my wife was a beautiful woman.

  Shirley Jackson

  Beautiful, Uncles, Lying

  Shirley Jackson (2014). “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”, p.45, Obelix Books

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• To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Underestimate, Oneself

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• Before she is an individual, a shaman is foremost a vehicle for receiving and expressing the grief and indignation of the people within society. The otherworldly strength that you see during a gut is the raging effort to forget and overcome the weakness of the self and is possible because it bears all the wrath and indignation of the people against oppression. Extraordinary acts performed with remarkable exaggeration encounter the human instinct to demolish one's own limitations, producing catharsis.

  Hyon Gyon

  Grief, People, Effort

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Discovery, Two

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• The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerations. It doesn't matter who you are today, if you don't show up in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have to show up in the mirror.

  Bruce Sterling

  Kids, Mirrors, Cyberspace

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• Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation.

  Jack Benny

  Ignorance, Names, Principles

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• Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Delight, Drink, Without Music

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• We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.

  Buck Rodgers

  Hands, Reputation, Ibm

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• For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Mind, Noble

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• Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

  Gillo Dorfles

  Attitude, Emotional, Kitsch

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• Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Matter, Way, Magnifying

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Parents and Children”, p.28, A&C Black

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• It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Believe, Book, School

  "Writing to the moment" by Tom Paulin, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2004.

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• It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

  John Denham

  Territory, Matter, British

  "British imams to tackle radicals in mosques" by Alan Travis, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2005.

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• 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

  Children, Lying, Parent

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• I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a little exaggeration of them - which I think is really the way to do an impression.

  Kevin Nealon

  Thinking, Littles, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Hands, Play, Long

  Whittaker Chambers (1969). “Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers' Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961”, New York : Putnam

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• I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Careers, People, Drug

  Source: collider.com

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• Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

  Isabella Bird

  United States, Phrases, World

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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• We weaken what we exaggerate.

  Jean-Francois de La Harpe

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• It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Vanity, Personality

  "Ideas have Consequences". Book by Richard M. Weaver, p. 62, 1948.

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• My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Football, Childhood, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established in my mind as things I say, things that I'm interested in, things that are fodder for my [stand-up] machine. And when I see something that relates to one of them, I know it instantly and if it's a further exaggeration and a further addition, or an exception - if it plays into furthering my purpose, I jot it down.

  George Carlin

  Play, Mind, Television

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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