Quotes About Anecdotes

a little exaggeration was always expected when describing weapons, victories, and body parts.

I've got lots more stories to tell.

In Surprised by Joy Lewis notes how his father, Albert, was fond of telling anecdotes about Sir John Mahaffy, anecdotes which Lewis later (at Oxford) found attached to Benjamin Jowett. This, alas, is the fate of any great figure: to serve as a convenient magnet for stories or quotations that other people want to perpetuate, however inaccurately.

Las relaciones humanas se vuelven progresivamente imposibles, lo cual reduce otro tanto la cantidad de anécdotas de las que se compone una vida. Y poco a poco aparece el rostro de la muerte, en todo su esplendor.

There are stories to tell that are not songs.

filantropía basada en datos concretos sobre impactos y resultados, y no en anécdotas, pasiones e intuiciones, para orientar las donaciones

Everything had changed now. Gothenburg, Kiruna, had become just anecdotes he'd tell Ingrid instead of some sort of final judgment against him. He

Obviously, the history of the franchise is a history of anomalies.