Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes…

I'm no good at anecdotes.

— Kelly Macdonald

I've been privileged to be able to be a part of some of my girlfriends' lives at their breaking points.

— Amanda de Cadenet

I love sharing my stories and experiences with people and connecting to them on both a humorous and emotional level.

— Tori Spelling

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

— Sade Adu

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

— Daniel Kahneman

“Often, the best stories aren't when someone pulls one 180-degree turn, but when someone pulls 180 one-degree turns: the stories when someone experiences a…

— Josh James Riebock

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep…

— Daniel Kahneman

Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous…

— Alberto Manguel

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

— Cheryl Strayed

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

— Kazimir Malevich

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation…

— George Bernard Shaw

Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories.…

— Danny Huston

There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the same anecdotes…

— Karen Elson

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,

— Mark Rothko

“There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.”

— Marcus Sakey