She had no images of this love. She could offer no…

“Moira became, over the years, increasingly versed in such anecdotes. I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.”

— Margaret Atwood

Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What…

— Margaret Atwood

Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive…

— Ravi Zacharias

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire…

— Daniel Dennett

Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when…

— Michael Jackson

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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