Hype Quotes - Page 2

Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

I have a hyper personality.

Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

Well, Led Zeppelin IV! That's it really. I'll tell you why the album had no title - because we were so fed up with the reactions to the third album, that people couldn't understand why that record wasn't a direct continuation of the second album. And then people said we were a hype and all, which was the furthest thing from what we were. So we just said, `let's put out an album with no title at all!' That way, either people like it or they don't... but we still got bad reviews!

...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.