Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. ... By the winter of 1933, an… — Melanie McGrath Copy Share Image
Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
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
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
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
I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders.… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not… — Gene Lees Copy Share Image
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“...our literature has fallen upon evil days...Read the latest book. What do you find? Simple anecdotes: murder, suicide and accident stories copied… — J.K. Huysmans Copy Share Image
We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
![“This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.” quote by Scott McClanahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc5/scott-mcclanahan-14739_analysis_this-thelonious-monk-the-life-and-times_1349956.jpg)
![“Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an anecdote he ever told me that was not in some way intended to convey a sense of his own superiority to everyone. . One wonders how a person of…” quote by Gene Lees](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce9/gene-lees-70592_anecdotes_despite-his-artie-shaw-s-affectations-of_2532360.jpg)
![“We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].” quote by Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1d/terence-mckenna-287_anecdotes_we-psychonauts-are-all-going-to-go-into_646498.png)