Top 38 Exaggerates Quotes
#1. Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.
Beth Moore
#2. The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.
Sara Davidson
#3. The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit and exaggerates the miserable physique and the national defects of concave chests and bow legs. The lack of 'complexion' and of hair upon the face makes it nearly impossible to judge of the ages of men.
Isabella Bird
#4. People seek revenge by an accounting that exaggerates their innocence and their adversary's malice; when two sides seek perfect justice, they condemn themselves and their heirs to strife.
Steven Pinker
#6. Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.
Mort Crim
#7. We're all getting plastic surgery. Come on, this is the game here, and HDTV exaggerates all the features. Yeah, I'm proud of it, because we're all doing it. Nobody's talking about it.
Patti Stanger
#8. I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I'm exaggerating, and the journalist exaggerates on top of that, then we end up in funny territory.
Autre Ne Veut
#9. When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.
Brice Marden
#10. Fear cannot be trusted ... It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest.
David Gemmell
#11. The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.
Catherine Robinson-Walker
#12. Boys and girls are undeniably different biologically, but socialization exaggerates the differences.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#13. And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.
John Henry Newman
#14. Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.
Luc De Clapiers
#15. I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
Veronica Roth
#16. What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.
Robert Gottlieb
#17. Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#18. In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
Michel Houellebecq
#21. No one is easier to manipulate than a man who exaggerates his own influence.
Masha Gessen
#22. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.
Joseph Addison
#23. I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
Camille Pissarro
#24. It is always the novice who exaggerates.
C.S. Lewis
#25. The connected economy of ideas demands that we contribute initiative. And yet we resist, because our lizard brain, the one that lives in fear, relentlessly exaggerates the cost of being wrong.
Seth Godin
#26. That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
Karl Pilkington
#27. A lazy, bored brain latches on to negativity and problems and exaggerates them until they become out of perspective and all-consuming.
Ed Stafford
#29. The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the world. Ironically, you're the super secret enemy. Whether lay or householder, everyone has that internal enemy.
Robert Thurman
#30. I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.
Jim Jarmusch
#31. The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.
Freeman Dyson
#32. Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.
Thomas R. Cech
#33. They say that Death embellishes its victims and exaggerates their virtues, but in general it is actually life that wronged them. Death, that pious and irreproachable witness, teaches us, in both truth and charity, that in each man there is usually more good than evil.
Marcel Proust
#34. And let's be honest, you weren't exactly harmed. I even took you home." "You dumped me on my doorstep. According to my mother, I looked half dead." "Your mother exaggerates. A third dead at most." I stared at him. Wow. Just wow.
Ilona Andrews
#35. To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.
David Sedaris
#36. Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
Andrew Mason
#37. The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.
Max Beerbohm
#38. As the death of the writer exaggerates the role of his work, the death of a person exaggerates the role of his effect on us.
Albert Camus
