Exaggeration Quotes

• Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Small
  • Comedy
  • Get Away

• I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Different
  • Theories
  • Constructed

• Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,' 'the best,' 'the greatest,' 'the purest,' 'the most economical,' and so on ad infinitum, are hurled at the public everywhere. Surely not all products of the same class can be the best or the finest.

  

  Daniel Starch
  • Class
  • Finest
  • Ads

• Let us hope especially that the enthusiasm and exaggerations, which so easily seize men congregated in large groups - affecting human passions and leading the crowd against its own interest, sweeping up in their whirlwind the sage and philosopher as.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Up
  • Men
  • Hope

• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Love
  • Person
  • Difference

• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

  

  William R. Alger
  • True
  • False
  • Eloquence

• The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Revolution
  • Birth
  • Physics

• One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Humans
  • Differences
  • States

• There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.

  

  Virginia Foxx
  • Lying
  • Interest
  • Abundance

• It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all.

  

  Wolfgang Kohler
  • Science
  • Social
  • Chimpanzees

• Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

  

  Isabella Bird
  • World
  • Lips
  • Phrases

• Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

  

  Georg Ebers
  • Christianity
  • Spokes
  • Pompous

• It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Mad
  • Vain
  • Forty

• That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back. You might be performing on a five-by-five stage in front of 12 people. That's an exaggeration but there are times when you have to turn the corner and do an acoustic set.

  

  Alan Powell
  • Challenges
  • To Do
  • Exaggeration

• The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerations. It doesn't matter who you are today, if you don't show up in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have to show up in the mirror.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Sometimes

• My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.

  

  Modest Mussorgsky
  • Violence
  • Feelings
  • Artistic

• The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

  

  Wendy Palmer
  • Through
  • Contrast
  • Exaggeration

• Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

  

  Bill N. Lacy
  • Design
  • Assistance
  • Exaggeration

• Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Truth
  • Honesty
  • Destruction