Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baltasar Gracian

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

Arianna Huffington

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

Aries Spears

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

Drew Carey

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

Mark Twain

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Honore de Balzac

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Victor Hugo

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Charles Stross

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stanley

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Alan Guth

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Alan Greenspan

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Refuse to be average.

Chip Kelly

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

Dominique Wilkins

I only dunked maybe twice a game on average.

Dick Armey

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Dexter Holland

You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

Simon Van Booy

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things

Liv Tyler

Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.

Geoff Johns

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

Joanne Harris

The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things.

Joyce Meyer

Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.

Shakti Gawain

Practice following your intuition in everyday things, trusting your gut feelings moment by moment and acting on them as best you can. As you learn to trust yourself in smaller matters, you will build power and confidence to take bigger risks and deal with the larger issues in your life successfully.

Warren Buffett

You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.