Anecdotes Quotes

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Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley...… — Roger Ebert
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
Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix… — David F. Swensen
MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal.… — Richard Posner
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about… — Jonathan Culler
When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor:… — Alison Lurie
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short… — John Lescroart
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into… — Daniel Hannan
Due to the potent combination of my sexual recklessness and the slutty nature of some of the girls I have slept with, I have accumulated… — Tucker Max
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human… — Mark Twain
I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes. — Bill Bryson
Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date.… — Matt Walsh
Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's got so many… — Duncan Jones
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 not that entirely… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive… — Louise Brooks
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our… — Dan Chaon
I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I… — Lydia Davis
Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most… — Danny Huston
I'm no good at anecdotes. — Kelly Macdonald
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… — Gene Lees

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