Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“Moira became, over the years, increasingly versed in such anecdotes. I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
My favorite part of any baseball book - and I read a lot of them - is the anecdotes. I believe there… — Jonathan Weeks Copy Share Image
Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that,… — Mel Tillis Copy Share Image
About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
“Throughout the primary, he’d report back from the field on what he was hearing at campaign events and from friends across the… — Jonathan Allen Copy Share Image
The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and… — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I'm teaching and coaching my partners on… — Derek Hough Copy Share Image
I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders.… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“...our literature has fallen upon evil days...Read the latest book. What do you find? Simple anecdotes: murder, suicide and accident stories copied… — J.K. Huysmans Copy Share Image
Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not… — Gene Lees Copy Share Image
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an… — Melanie McGrath Copy Share Image
Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
![“[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the engineers "exploded in profanity."” quote by Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/144/edward-snowden-555_anecdotes_barton-gellman-printed-a-great-anecdote_2686678.jpg)
![“[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without…” quote by Scott McClanahan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ec7/scott-mcclanahan-14739_alive_he-stopped-loving-her-today-is-all-about_2962955.jpg)
![“I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what I can, but no more than that. Just as I cannot breathe the breath of another or help the heart of someone else to beat or their bones not to weaken or their flesh not to shrivel, I…” quote by Colm Toibin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c85/colm-toibin-3377_anecdotes_i-like-it-that-they-disciples-feed-me-an_3082960.png)
![“We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].” quote by Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f1d/terence-mckenna-287_anecdotes_we-psychonauts-are-all-going-to-go-into_646498.png)
![“Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an anecdote he ever told me that was not in some way intended to convey a sense of his own superiority to everyone. . One wonders how a person of…” quote by Gene Lees](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ce9/gene-lees-70592_anecdotes_despite-his-artie-shaw-s-affectations-of_2532360.jpg)
![“This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.” quote by Scott McClanahan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dc5/scott-mcclanahan-14739_analysis_this-thelonious-monk-the-life-and-times_1349956.jpg)
