Anecdotes Quotes

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What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes… — James Hilton
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote. — David Nicholls
I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what… — Colm Toibin
The plural of anecdote is not data. — Marc Bekoff
What was Aristotleâ€™s life?â€™ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: â€˜He was born, he thought, he died.â€™ And all the rest is pure… — Martin Heidegger
At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will… — David Mamet
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations. — Maurice Bejart
Life is too short for a long story — Mary Wortley Montagu
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey… — Thomas Boswell
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought… — Alice Munro
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into… — Jan Koum
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. Robert Quillen As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.… — Robert Quillen
And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But… — Mel Tillis
A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What I've learnt - to my cost - on several occasions in my life, is that people will put up with all manner of bad… — Russell Brand
Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm… — Anna Paquin
An unseasonable tale will always be in the mouth of the unwise. — Apocrypha

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