Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power. — Michael Ondaatje 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
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
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
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
“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
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
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or… — Dan Chaon 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
Being an entrepreneur, everyone needs to hear a personal anecdote from you once in a while or see you go out of… — Martin Zwilling 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
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
You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
“Ida was a natural historian who knew how to throw in enough fiction to keep up dramtic tension. And she was replete… — Marissa Piesman 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
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
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
Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in… — Michael Jackson 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
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
I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Anecdotes are not the same as experience, but they often inspire. And inspiration is the blood of human existence. Without it we… — Twesigye Jackson Kaguri Copy Share Image
People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote. — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the… — Karen Elson Copy Share Image
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
