Anecdotes Quote by William Ellery Channing Download Open image “One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.” — William Ellery Channing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anecdotes Biographies Volume
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
I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject. — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
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… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me. — David Cassidy 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
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me.… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom. — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy,… — William Ellery Channing 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
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
