Anecdotes famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
-- Alan Thicke -
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.
-- Alice Munro -
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.
-- Anthony Holden -
Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.
-- Caitlin Moran -
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
-- Carol Bly -
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 -
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.
-- Dan Chaon -
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.
-- Daniel Hannan -
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.
-- Duncan Jones -
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?
-- E. M. Forster -
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."
-- Gilbert Burnet -
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.
-- Irving Howe -
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes
-- Isaac Barrow -
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.
-- John Lescroart -
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.
-- Jonathan Culler -
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
-- Kazimir Malevich -
Naturally, I mine my girlfriends lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.
-- Lauren Weisberger -
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.
-- Louise Brooks -
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.
-- Lydia Davis -
Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.
-- Maira Kalman -
She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
-- Mark Rothko -
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
-- Mark Rothko -
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.
-- Matt Walsh -
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.
-- Maurice Bejart -
Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at all for the oceanic Lifeboat, because he felt audiences would wonder where the music was coming from in the middle of the sea. Raksin said, Ask Hitch where the cameras are coming from.
-- Paul Zollo -
Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.
-- Steven Novella -
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.
-- Thomas Kuhn -
Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
-- Tryon Edwards -
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
-- William Ellery Channing -
Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.
-- Ben Clymer -
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.
-- Carl Hart -
You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of the story that leads us to a point where we see or intuit something we haven't before?
-- John L'Heureux -
There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the same anecdotes over and over again you start slowly hating yourself.
-- Karen Elson -
The plural on anecdote is not evidence
-- Michael Mauboussin -
In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When I begin to write a book, I do not know how it will come out, what it will say in the end. If I already did, I wouldn't need to write it."
-- Thomas L. Dumm -
It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.
-- Scott McClanahan -
[He Stopped Loving Her Today] is all about the experience of being alive and the thought process of consciousness, and then you have these polemical essay-type things going on for a couple decades now. Some of these music books are where you're going to see an anecdote of a person behaving without some kind of commentary.
-- Scott McClanahan -
This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and analysis. The analysis is built into the anecdote. It has that right feel about it. It's not too scholarly, either.
-- Scott McClanahan -
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.
-- Jan Koum
