Exaggeration Quotes - page 5

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over. (John Walker Lindh)
"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. View quote
Pauly Shore
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial. View quote
Robin Marantz Henig
The buffoonery of Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart is only an exaggeration of an essential quality of the classical style. This style was, in its origins, basically a comic one. View quote
Charles Rosen
I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration. View quote
David Sedaris
I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
The withdrawal symptoms from opiates are not severe and never dangerous, though of course they do exist. Insofar as they are genuinely feared, there has been a campaign of exaggeration about them for nearly 200 years. View quote
Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
The whole tenor of this tendentious scheme for "national integration" becomes fully explicit in the following fiat from the Ministry of Education: "Characterisation of the medieval period as a dark period or as a time of conflict between Hindus and Muslims is forbidden. Historians cannot identify Muslims as rulers and Hindus as subjects. The state cannot be described as a theocracy, without examining the actual influence of religion. No exaggeration of the role of religion in political conflicts is permitted... Nor should there be neglect and omission of trends and processes of assimilation and synthesis.”. View quote
Sita Ram Goel
It is, therefore, no exaggeration to say that the "architect of modern India” was no more than a combined embodiment of all imperialist ideologies which had flocked to this ancient land in the company of alien invaders Islam, Christianity, White Man's Burden, and Communism. View quote
Sita Ram Goel
It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin. View quote
Alexei Mordashov
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)
I may say without exaggeration that this is a revolutionary approach; it is very painful, because this system of permission was the underpinning of the great bureaucratic system on all levels. And that democratic system, a corrupt one, it has been built for years and decades. View quote
Viktor Yanukovych
Modern warfare is ghastly beyond exaggeration and civil war among industrial populations is the most diabolical form of conflict. View quote
Kirby Page
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. View quote
William R. Alger
This may be a gross exaggeration of a very simple matter. But perhaps the same is true of many of the more prodigious things of life and death. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Truly, night was made for sleep; since to its wakeful hours belongs an oppression unknown to the very dreariest hours of day. The stillness is so deep, the solitude so unbroken, the fever brought on by want of rest so weakens the nerves, that the imagination exercises despotic and unwholesome power, till, if the heart have a fear or a sorrow, up it arises in all the force and terror of gigantic exaggeration. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
That its real interests, precious and important as without the help of exaggeration, they truly are, will be advanced, rather than injured by the due encouragement of manufactures, may, it is believed, be satisfactorily demonstrated. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage. View quote
Steven Wright
One of the things my editor and I did fight about...is the idea of how much a reader can take. To me you get nowhere second guessing how much can a reader stand and how much can she not. What a reader can always tell is when you are holding back for fear of offending them. I wanted there to be something too much about the violence in the book, but I also wanted there to be an exaggeration of everything, an exaggeration of love, of empathy, of pity, of horror. I wanted everything turned up a little too high... View quote
Hanya Yanagihara
It may be said, without exaggeration, that there is no other text which is documented by such varied types of sources. View quote
Moshe Goshen-Gottstein
I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it! (Tom Wolfe)
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin a bloody man, vicious a coarse man, vulgar. View quote
Willa Cather
It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer. View quote
Christian de Duve
There is no danger which we have to contend with which is so serious as an exaggeration of the power, the useful power, of the interference of the State. View quote
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist. View quote
Maxwell Maltz