Hyperbolic Quotes

#1. Word inflation ... Bigger and better. Good greater greatest totally great. Hyperbolic and hyperbolicker. Like grade-inflation.

David Foster Wallace

#2. Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line - less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

Thomas Hardy

#3. It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

Donald Knuth

#4. I don't mean this to sound hyperbolic but there are increasingly, albeit really minor, similarities between now and how Germany was lulled into what happened pre-WW2.

David Cross

#5. Hyperbolic myths of origin have from the earliest times served to lend a paradoxical plausibility to the biographies of heroes.

Michael Chabon

#6. It may be hyperbolic to declare that Shakespeare teaches us more about being human than all the natural scientists combined.

Philip Kitcher

#7. Hyperbolic statements will be the death of us all

William McGregor Robson

#8. It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.

Victor Hugo

#9. If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

Nawal El Saadawi

#10. It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.

Warren G

#11. Dave had been fun when they'd first dated. Then impending fatherhood had sobered him at the same time Mickle and Company had crooked its finger, turning him from Mr. Right to Mr. Wrong.

Cheryl Sterling

#12. Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Origen

#13. I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

#14. Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund

William Shakespeare

#15. I love you, Elena. And it's because I love you that I can't be selfish with you. I don't deserve you, but my brother does.-Damon Salvatore, S2

L.J.Smith

#16. I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I could finance comics myself, I lasted only a little reading superheroes.

Ben Peek

#17. Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

Oscar Niemeyer

#18. She did not know why she could not move. It was as in a dream when the heart strains and the body cannot stir.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. Van Gogh cut off his ear
gave it to a
prostitute
who flung it away in
extreme
disgust.
Van, whores don't want
ears
they want
money.
I guess that's why you were
such a great
painter: you
didn't understand
much
else.

Charles Bukowski

#20. Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.

Robert Paul Weston

#21. Maybe he stomped on my vagina and I'm pissed about it. Stella Murphy

R.L. Griffin

#22. My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.

Sarah Dessen

#23. I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

Deidre Hall