Quotes About Anecdote

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Smart thinking, called critical thinking, examines assumptions, appraises the source, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions. Whether reading online commentary or listening to a conversation, critical thinkers ask questions: How do they know that? What is this person's agenda? Is the conclusion based on anecdote and gut feelings, or on evidence? Does the evidence justify a cause–effect conclusion? What alternative explanations are possible?

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

History a distillation of rumor

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

Yesterday I accidentally hit a little kid with my car. It wasn't serious — nobody saw me.

I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.

I had a chicken finger that was so big, it was a chicken hand.

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

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

History: the first time a joke, the second time a badly translated joke.

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

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said "No."

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

Your last letter made me laugh so much, Em, but you should still get out of there because while it's good for gags it's definitely bad for your soul. You can't throw years of your life away because it makes a funny anecdote.

El calendario también lo encarcelaba en un tiempo anecdótico y lo privaba del otro tiempo que vivía dentro de él.

A scene," Mary told us, "is a moment when there is some form of tension. A scene leads to the next scene. And a causal connection between scenes is what leads you to the story. A scene should be very clearly developed, and when the action is finished, the scene is over. An anecdote is, 'Oh, I missed the train. You'll never believe what happened....' An anecdote leads to nothing.

My poor cooking is legendary among my friends.

My daddy - whenever he wanted to teach us a lesson, he'd tell us a story. It's an Old South tradition.

I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.