Top 266 Exaggeration Is Quotes & Sayings

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

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

The Democrats do not like free speech. And that's not an exaggeration.

I always loved watching old movies and I loved Marilyn Monroe and all those blondes; that hyper feminine 1950s glamour and the exaggeration of it. Then Jessica Rabbit came along and it was an exaggeration of that look and so I wanted to be even more exaggerated than that.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin.

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

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

Oh, God. Mate, I've written about 800 songs, and that's no exaggeration!

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

I don't think it's exaggeration or hyperbole to say that Pedro Zamora changed the world.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.

I always say that drag queens are like an exaggeration of women, and I'm like an exaggeration of drag queens. People ask, 'Why do you do your makeup so differently?' and I always say, 'Well, in a subversive art form, ask yourself why so many drag queens do their makeup exactly the same.' If you can do anything, why does everybody do the same thing?

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

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

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

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

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

For me and my drag, I think camp is about exaggeration and artifice and the celebration of superficiality. A lot of my fans look up to me as a figure of femininity but that's all artifice. That's all fake and that's campy within itself, and so that's what resonates to me: the seriousness and the funniness and the artifice and the exaggeration.

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?

A work of art is an exaggeration.

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.

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

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.