Anecdote Quotes

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. — William Ellery Channing
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data,… — Carl Sagan
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary… — Friedrich Nietzsche
People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote. — Charlotte Gray
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had… — Bill Cosby
History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we… — Thomas Kuhn
During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power… — Ross Douthat
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, — Mark Rothko
An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these… — Gilbert Burnet
You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the… — John L'Heureux
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. — Alice Munro
Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with… — Maurice Denis
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
Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact. — Maira Kalman
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound… — Tryon Edwards
If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times… — Anthony Holden
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I… — E. M. Forster

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