Quotes of: Anecdotes Keyword

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Sheridaniana: Or, Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1981-2011, With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes, and Miscellany

I'm no good at anecdotes.

Kelly Macdonald

An amusing story? She jabs the call button as if poking an eye. She doesn’t want an amusing story, she wants change, a break, not anecdotes. Her life has been stuffed with anecdotes, an endless string of the bastards, now she wants something to rig...

One Day

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Marc Bekoff

Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.

Advice to Writers: A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights

Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal.

Rob Thomas

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

Robert Quillen

It was more difficult not to understand than to understand.

A Nasty Anecdote

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

William Ellery Channing

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

Eugene Mirman

I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.

Cate Blanchett

I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

Mary McCormack

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

Bill Bryson

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

Michael Shermer

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.

One Day

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.

Lauren Weisberger

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Anita Brookner

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

There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals