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- All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that… — Christian Bale
- Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. — Anita Brookner
- It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. — Italo Calvino
- One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. — William Ellery Channing
- To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. — Lord Chesterfield
- If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Bill Cosby
- History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science… — Thomas Kuhn
- Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are… — Chris Mooney