For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.
Quotes about superlatives (9 Quotes)
I think it will get a respectable pop. There's nothing but superlatives for this company.
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
There was a real sense of determination in talking to him. You could get carried away with superlatives with Frank Thomas. Arguably, he is one of the greatest offensive players of his generation.
There's not enough superlatives in the dictionary to describe what he's meant to Cecil Community College men's basketball. He's been a marked man his whole career here, but nothing phases him. He still performs at the highest level.
When I did suit back up and put the Superlatives together, I had a lot of trouble in my mind following ( The Pilgrim ). I was doing a session one day with Cash, and I said, 'You've made lots of brilliantly deep records that weren't on anybody's radar except yours. I'm having a tough time following this Pilgrim thing.' He said, 'The only thing I can tell you is that your next record has to come out of your heart like that one did, or it's just a wasted work. Once you make a record like that, you can't go back and live with yourself.' And he was right.
If he hadnt a God of his own self defined by everything that can be better in its imagination, through all the possible and impossible superlatives of his hopes, would he still have had hopes My answer is without a doubt no.
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.