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I'm no good at anecdotes.
Good anecdote--bad reality.
The plural of anecdotes is not data
The plural on anecdote is not evidence
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.
Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.
I don't do anecdotes. I accumulate experiences.
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes
I think in Russia, there's a lot of storytelling and anecdotes.
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.
I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.
Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.
And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.
I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.
I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.
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.
I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.
The world is a fabric we weave daily on the great looms of information, discussions, films, books, gossip, little anecdotes.
I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
Naturally, I mine my girlfriends lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.
Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.
Films have to find a way to compress many anecdotes into one, or many events into one. Otherwise there is no way to tell it in two and a half hours.
One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.
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 stories and anecdotes.
Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.
My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to everyone and the anecdotes are not representative.
I get verbal diarrhea in the writers' room. I just tell everyone a million anecdotes and stories and craziness, and we all double up on the floor laughing.
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 names.
There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a corner, necking.
If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
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 anecdotes.
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
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 often wish I were.