Quotes About Anecdotes

Then he laughed, his typical laugh. Making me wish i had ten more such anectodes stashed away to keep him standing there, holding onto me and laughing.

How much does it take to have a history as opposed to anecdotes? Is there a critical mass? We

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She had a knack or weakness for laughing boisterously at her own anecdotes—not, I thought, because she found herself funny, but because she thought that life needed celebrating and wanted others to join in.

I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.

That was a story, too; they all had stories.

It was always this way with our fathers. They made stories of cruelty seem so funny.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.

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 wouldn't want people to know.

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.

A life saved is a statistic; a person hurt is an anecdote. Statistics are invisible; anecdotes are salient.

today we depend on the press for such essentially human things as gossip and anecdotes and we care about the private lives of people in very remote places.

naïve empiricism—successions of anecdotes selected to fit a story do not constitute evidence. Anyone

A life saved is a statistic; a person hurt is an anecdote. Statistics are invisible; anecdotes are salient. Likewise, the risk of a Black Swan is invisible.

According to an account in Anecdotes of the Telegraph, when his request was questioned, the man ran off, grinning a horrible, ghastly smile.

Simple Bible statements, apt illustrations, and pertinent anecdotes,

Simple Bible statements, apt illustrations, and pertinent anecdotes, were the more common weapons that he used. The consequence was that his hearers always understood him. He never shot above their heads. Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them, Why can't he recall, with equal skill, All the times he told them!

Bygone troubles are good to tell.

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

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.

Bud's relationship with the female sex was governed by a gallimaufry of primal impulses, dim suppositions, deranged theories, overheard scraps of conversation, half-remembered pieces of bad advice, and fragments of no-doubt exaggerated anecdotes that amounted to rank superstition.

There are many people and many tribes, but only so many stories.