Anecdotes Quote by David Nicholls Download Open image “You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.” — David Nicholls ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anecdotes Life Years
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment. — Pearl Bailey Copy Share Image
You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When I write my autobiography after 20-25 years, I want 2014 to be the weakest year of my life. — Sajid Nadiadwala Copy Share Image
I think it's foolish to think that if you've done something for so long, you can kind of delete it out of your memory… — Andy Roddick Copy Share Image
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up. — Pete Cashmore Copy Share Image
If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“He presses two fingers against each eye and attempts to account for this crippling melancholy, but is having trouble with rational thought. It feels… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Live each day as if it's our last', that was the conventional advice, but really who had the energy for that? What if it… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“How would she fill the days? She had no idea. The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.” — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the same anecdotes… — Karen Elson Copy Share Image
Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories.… — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
