Exaggerated Quotes

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated.

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.

Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated.

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.

Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes

If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for us, particularly as we go down the road and look at other threats.

I think probably anyone would say, the worst and the hardest things to deal with is when people say things that aren't true. Or that are kind of true but exaggerated.

Sebastian sighed an exaggerated sigh and swung the door shut. Clary stared at Jace. "What the f-" "Language, Fray." Jace's eyes danced. "Relax.

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

The dimensions of video game characters, even when they're scanned from real people, are beefed up with exaggerated proportions in games like Def Jam: Fight for NY to give them more pop.

Some people are saying Bill O'Reilly exaggerated his war experience in the 1980s. People became suspicious because O'Reilly said he was injured in the East Coast/West Coast rap wars.

In a new poll 54 percent believed President Bush exaggerated the size of Iraq's missile threat. Hey, he's a guy.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

Our differences should not be exaggerated.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just mobbin like that.

The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated.

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

You can't be a full tranny every day of the week that's an exaggerated part of my personality.

Even if this is exaggerated, they are close to (enrichment ability) and the world faces a new reality.

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything!

I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.

I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories.

The English were relatively short in the mid-nineteenth century and so their expeditions return with stories some exaggerated, not doubt about "giants" who lived in other parts of the world.