Teju Cole Quotes

Americans like to add the word 'super' when they're describing things.

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

Hyperbole engaged in consciously to achieve a desired effect can be, as we have noted, a useful rhetorical tool. Indeed, its use in this manner is sometimes called "exaggeration in the service of truth." However, there's much to be said for restraint of tongue and pen, and restraint refers not only to what we say but also to how we say it. It is possible, believe it or not, to be emphatic without indulging in overstatement; it is possible to be forceful without exaggerating.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

The only kind of statement worth making is an overstatement.

Never a man to understate matters

I'm prone to hyperbole.

People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on every move made by Microsoft or Google or Apple. Every new smart phone gets billed as a potential 'iPhone killer,' while every new product from Apple represents the dawn of a new era. It's ridiculous - and exhausting.

Literally' - I'm not having it; people can't go around saying 'literally.' Otherwise, what's literal? There's not another word for literally: if it isn't figurative or metaphorical, what is it? It's literal: there's no substitute.

It's true, I did write - but it's probably not as dramatic as it sounds.

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.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts.

Maybe he overreacted a bit." - "A bit? That's like Hitler saying, 'Oooh, I just meant to go for a little walk, but then I accidentally invaded Poland".

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.