A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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.
I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].
People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life. " I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a big effect on them and enabled them to change. I'm not sure I believe that a book will cause someone to change.
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
no one had experiences any more, only traumas.
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
I needed to sit down. I'd heard other people talk about having to sit down when shocked by an event or revelation and I had dismissed the notion as pure exaggeration. Little did I realize the actual physical weakness. It felt as if my bones had dissolved and my muscles could no longer support my weight.
It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government.
It's not an exaggeration to say that they saved my life. Ray Quinn, then Cam and Ethan and Phil. They turned their world around for me, and because of it, turned mine around with it. Anna and Grace and Sybill, Aubrey too. They made a home for me, and nothing that happened before matters nearly as much as everything that came after.
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
There is no one who does not exaggerate!
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
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.
Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.