Embellishment Quotes

“You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Message Remix

“Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to save face by not owning up to shortcomings.”
― Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”
― Aljean Harmetz, Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of Casablanca--Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

“Any story worth telling has been embellished a little bit, Skyco, but the best stories are born from an honest seed that simply grows a little in the retelling of it.”
― Jennifer Frick-Ruppert, Spirit Quest

“There are still no curtains in the rooms, still no sign of eccentricity.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“Žena koja nanosi maskaru, i pored nje muškarac koji se brije, na odvojenim su stranama međusobno prožimajućih potreba. S jedne se strane nalazi ono što činimo radi uljepšavanja, a s druge ono što proizlazi ponajprije iz potrebe za ugodom, no i jedno i drugo, čovjeku, u konačnici priskrbljuje osjećaj zadovoljstva samim sobom.”
― Stanka Gjurić, Istina o sreći

“The higher-ups read into things. And they ignore sentences they don’t like.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation