Anecdotes Quotations

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

I think in Russia, there's a lot of storytelling and anecdotes.

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.

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.

It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.

In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.

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 was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I'm teaching and coaching my partners on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I sort of use those stories and anecdotes to help them sort of overcome certain fears.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

With 'Hollow Circus,' I used a family story that haunted me as a kid, one of those anecdotes about a family member that would rarely be spoken of in front of the children.

I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.

I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.

Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

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 trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.

The plural of anecdotes is not data

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.

I am starting to hear more anecdotes about softening in housing markets, and seeing more reports that home prices are growing at a slower rate,

I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing.

There aren't many opportunities for celebs to do promotion that doesn't involve anecdotes about a crazy vacation.

There aren't many opportunities for celebrities to do promotion that doesn't involve five-minute anecdotes about a crazy vacation. You really see them being themselves.

Hundreds of anecdotes I could relate. It may happen that the pages I am now scribbling over, may hereafter be published.

Real-time, on-the-ground anecdotes get to us faster than does the information that rolls up through the reporting process. Those anecdotes are enormously useful and we pay a lot of attention to them.

Steele has had a varied life. A lot of these anecdotes would serve him well if he used them.

Good anecdote--bad reality.

We have to ... put more emphasis on the incoming data and the anecdotes we get from the business community and other audiences and try to put together a coherent assessment of the economy.

Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

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 their anecdotes were about.

There are a million anecdotes that show that the College hasn't given students fair warning about work that is being done to their rooms. Students have said that several times there have been two knocks on their door and it opens without warning. Others have experienced workers peering into their windows.

We expect the housing market will trudge on. For consumer spending, the official numbers will be strong, but by December Bollard will have the anecdotes about how pre-Christmas trading is looking. If it looks like a shocker, he won't move.

We expect the housing market will trudge on, ... For consumer spending, the official numbers will be strong, but by December Bollard will have the anecdotes about how pre-Christmas trading is looking. If it looks like a shocker, he won't move.

Even though there are a lot of anecdotes that the housing market is bouncing back, these numbers will cool that down a little bit.

Be warm and personal by backing it up with examples, stories and anecdotes that the person on the other end of the phone can relate to and understand.

As the flow of subliterary "news items" and anecdotes increases, the writer's work withers and stales until, in grim transference, his life becomes his oeuvre and he his only character.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway.

The audience will feel like Chita is talking to them personally. It's not like a play. It's like this woman is sitting on a chair, telling you these fascinating anecdotes in such a natural way that it's as if you were sitting in the living room with her.

Instead of just anecdotes and stories that raise people's anxieties, I think it's best to have real numbers. And now we have those.

I published on the web about 60 anecdotes about the development of the Mac in time for the Mac's 20th birthday in 2004. And that led to a book.

Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.

A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading.

I consider that my own personal life and anecdotes may be amusing enough and interesting enough, but they're in a different realm.

An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion." To the inquiry of "What religion?" the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it."

She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.

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.

(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,

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.

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 am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.

Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

I'm no good at anecdotes.

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

Some people exclaim, "Give me no anecdotes of an author, but give me his works," and yet I have often found that the anecdotes are more interesting than the works

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 the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

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.

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.