Hyperbole Quotes

When I say 'Crush your enemy', I don't literally mean it.

He has so many muscles he has to make an appointment to move his fingers.

The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.

… a conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man.

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Next to of course god America i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh

We suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn't mean I do it.

In the U.S., everything is big - it's like looking through a magnifying glass.

I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.

I never think about politics more than 18 hours a day.

People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.

My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.

I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!

Sometimes hyperbole and lying are not easily distinguishable [in politics].

The one thing that makes me laugh about the phrase 'the worst week of my life' is that nobody actually uses that phrase when something really bad happens.

'Irony' is such an over-used word.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

Democrats refuse to deal with reality. They make things up, sensationalize common sense solutions, and exacerbate this obsession over political correctness.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

If you're going to be ridiculous, be over-the-top ridiculous.