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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life. -- Bill Moyers
Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid. -- Terry Gilliam
Hyperbole is something Id better avoid. -- Terry Gilliam
Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies. -- George Will
I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes. -- John Legend
I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole. -- Ron Chernow
Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story. -- Adam Carolla
Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support? -- Sean Hannity
We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability. -- Mike Quigley
Chefs are fond of hyperbole, so they can certainly talk that way. But on the whole, I think they probably have a more open mind than most people. -- Anthony Bourdain
Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better than Joe Biden to give us a little hyperbole, as we all know. -- Stephen Pagliuca
The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch. -- Marco Rubio
I live in a constant state of hyperbole. -- Eden Sher
The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love. -- Francis Bacon
With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more. -- Paul Vixie
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. -- William Shakespeare
I know that the vitriol and hyperbole that exists online, and the anonymity, can be deadly because it's cloaked in negativity and it's brutal sometimes. -- Adrian Pasdar
Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now. -- Gregg Easterbrook
Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety. -- Trevor Nunn
Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole. -- Jane Leavy
...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world. -- Anita Loos
When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole. -- Anna Quindlen
The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but theycan still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts. -- Donald Trump
There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping majority. There was the relief that the Tories were finally gone. There was the grand hyperbole. -- Martin Jacques
Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main contours of New Labour policy. This has been a government that has majored on hyperbole, but in fact, from the outset it was hugely timid and cravenly orthodox. -- Martin Jacques
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale. -- Abe Ajay
It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love! -- Thomas Watson
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole. -- John Cleese
I'll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. -- Frances Mayes

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