Exaggeration Quotes - Page 9

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

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Mind, Noble

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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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• 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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• We weaken what we exaggerate.

  Jean-Francois de La Harpe

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• I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].

  John F. Kerry

  Thinking, Threat, Terrorist

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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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• Michael Jackson is a very weird impulse. It was the exploration of something overtly pop, to the point where pop is kitsch. It's also an exaggeration when placed across from the race riots. Because again you have the police department and you have Michael Jackson.

  Kelley Walker

  Police, Exploration, Impulse

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I define melodrama as truth uninhibited. It's the kind of truth we dream about. Rather than melodrama being exaggerated, it's actually uninhibited. And it's a big difference - people look down on exaggerations, but I think they should look up to the un-inhibitions.

  Guy Maddin

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Revolution, Twins

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• Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

  Karl Barth

  Crush, Heaven, Shining

  Karl Barth (2003). “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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

  Art, Self, Work Ethic

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• Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life.

  Al Gore

  People, Way, Destruction

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• I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church I grew up in. And some of the things they did I rejected, because I could see that it was a manipulation and an exaggeration. My struggle is never to fool folks; to keep it authentic - who we are and who we are becoming - rather than to mimic or to translate what others do into my own terms.

  Cecil Williams

  Struggle, Kids, Black

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

  Julien Green

  Ink And Paper, Littles, Equilibrium

  Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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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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• ... many Hindus are willing to consider Jesus as a legitimate manifestation of the divine... many Buddhists see Jesus as one of humanity's most enlightened people.... A shared reappraisal of Jesus' message could provide a unique space or common ground for urgently needed religious dialogue - and it doesn't seem an exaggeration to say that the future of our planet may depend on such dialogue. This reappraisal of Jesus' message may be the only project capable of saving a number of religions.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Religious, Jesus, Buddhist

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• Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

  Craig Ferguson

  Lying, Sacred, Confession

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.9, Chronicle Books

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

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Underestimate, Oneself

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• The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.

  J. D. Salinger

  Wall, Book, Exaggeration Is

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

  Stephenie Meyer

  Heart, Broken, Sorrow

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