#exaggeration

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#art #dance #exaggeration #film #architecture

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#doctrine #exaggeration #primness #religion #art

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#envelope #exaggeration #honorable #me #pushing

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. ↗

— Walt Disney

#cartoon #cartoon characters #characters #exaggeration #fable

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well. ↗

— Edmund S. Muskie

#anger #become #campaigns #exaggeration #heat

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at. ↗

— Peter Oliver

#any #arrive #beyond #boston #conceive

He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#funny #funny

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#exaggeration #gain #governments #history #i

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#greater #happy #harmony #parts #sum

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english literature #even #exaggeration #greatest