A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Hearing about something a hundred times is not as good as seeing it once. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of… — Luke Salisbury Copy Share Image
I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such. — John Thorn Copy Share Image
What is a nightstand without Mindy Kaling? I dip into her 'Why Not Me?' when I've had a particularly rough day. Her… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Films have to find a way to compress many anecdotes into one, or many events into one. Otherwise there is no way… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
“Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“An amusing story? She jabs the call button as if poking an eye. She doesn’t want an amusing story, she wants change,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't do commentaries on films because A) I'm not very good at it and B) it's an odd thing that I… — David Slade Copy Share Image
At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I take pens and I write on the inside of my arm. When I'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A famous anecdote concerning Cuvier involves the tale of his visitation from the devil—only it was not the devil but one of… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
“Throughout the process, you must show gratitude to those who have helped you get to where you are.” — Gregory S. Works Copy Share Image
Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets… you will find me and Morpheus,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.' — S. Ansky Copy Share Image
