James Burnley Quotes

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

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

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

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.

I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting.

I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

It's amazing how much things can get exaggerated.

I think that people believe in lies and they repeat the lies so many times that the people start to believe, 'ah, Demian is not fighting for the title because he doesn't sell.'

What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.

The primacy of preaching over reporting inevitably leads journalism down a path of hyperbole, distortion and outright fabrication.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.

A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

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.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.