Terry Gilliam Quotes

Never a man to understate matters

Hyperbole is not easily dealt with. Usually, it collapses under its own weight.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

The only kind of statement worth making is an overstatement.

I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

I overdramatize.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

We need to become more acutely conscious that words matter. None of us would deny that ideas and opinions matter, but we can sometimes be careless about how we express them. The words we choose to advance an idea, opinion, or point of view have a huge impact on how people react and respond to that view. When we use hyperbole, we increase the chances of being misunderstood and of promoting equally exaggerated counter-reactions, especially when people are reacting almost instantaneously.

I'm prone to hyperbole.

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.