From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Plutarch's peers were writing "rhetorics," which were these dry philosophical treatises that made really broad gestures about life and death and fate.… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Having kids has proven to be this amazing - for me, this amazing source of ideas of anecdotes, of examples, I can… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
One of the things that I intend to devote a lot of time to in the coming years is continuing to try… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands… — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women -… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
I think the key anecdote in the book is when Colin [Powell] and I were discussing Iraq. Colin was upstairs in the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
Due to the potent combination of my sexual recklessness and the slutty nature of some of the girls I have slept with,… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
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