Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A great mix of tips, tricks, and anecdotes, All is Forgiven, Move On has excellent ideas for your weight loss journey and… — Judith S. Beck 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
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
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
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
In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“An amusing story? She jabs the call button as if poking an eye. She doesn’t want an amusing story, she wants change,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone… — Alberto Manguel 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
Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about… — Betty Comden Copy Share Image
The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning… — Israel Albert Horowitz Copy Share Image
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,'… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of… — Robert Fulghum 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
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
“Granny was quiet. She was either contemplating Dwayne’s story or trying to come up with one that would top his. I shivered… — Robyn Peterman Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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