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Legends exaggerate.
I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.
I exaggerate everything, that is where I go wrong.
You live for pretentious metaphors.
Impressive claims are made far more impressive by making them exact
Exaggeration in every sense is as essential to newspaper writing as it is to the writing of plays: for the point is to make as much as possible of every occurrence. So that all newspaper writers are, for the sake of their trade, alarmists: this is their way of making themselves interesting.
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.
It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later.
Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.
Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity.
I feel there's no need to overstate.
'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
Understatement is overrated
I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true - nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
Actually, no," Shallan said. "I'm just fond of hyperbole."
"I'm not," he said. "It's a real bastard to spell"
"Kabsal!
'Unbelievable' is the stupidest word in the dictionary.
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
is a small word with a big reach. There
Everyones a hypercrit and if you don't agree you're a liar as well
It's funny that sometimes you can only describe something with perfect accuracy by being wildly inaccurate.
Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!
There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.
With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.
Exaggeration is a standard peculiarity of man. To deprecate is often a form of exaggeration which people do not notice, because it appears to be its opposite.
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.
It is always the novice who exaggerates.
Overstand to understand.
Rumor exaggerates.
The limits of your language are the limits of your world.
When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.
The most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.
It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.
For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [ Inigo Montoya ]
A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution
One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of
definition translate tendencies into habits.
Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.
The term itself - my life - is a desperate overstatement.
It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself ...
Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the possible, but against their ideas of perfection...
Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.
You can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.
Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .
In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.
When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.
Your language indicates--and limits--what you think.
[N]obody is a greater schoolgirl in spirit than a cynic. Cynics can not relinquish the rubbish they were taught as children: they hold tight to the belief that the word [sic] has meaning and, when things go wrong for them, they consequently adopt the inverse attitude.
My hypocrisy only goes so far.
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
Credulity is always ridiculous.
In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims.
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.
I've never been a fan of euphemism.
The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.
Disproportionate.
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.
The limits of your imagination are not the boundaries of my universe.
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
A work of art is an exaggeration.
Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
Scriptures may have grains of historical truth within them, but there is also ample hyperbole, speculation and mythology.
What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.
What we call absurd is our ignorance. The Winners, 1960
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
I ask you, why is it so hard to stay away from the euphemisms? They creep in, always, and attempt to make the difficult things more pleasing.
Tendentious point of view;
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
No word is too grand or too infinitesimal to be considered
Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.
Imagination is an abuse of power.
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
To exaggerate is to paint a rainbow with additional colors.
I suppose that was an example of close attention to detail that is common to writers and artists. It is imperative, whether consciously or not, that one observe the vast as well as the infinitesimal in order to create the image or choose accurate words that ring true.
The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.
The conceptions of idle talk, of superfluities, and of vain ostentation, all designations of an irrational attitude without objective purpose, thus
Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.
Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect