Quotes About Anecdote

As Kipling said, that's another story...

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

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

This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.

Apparently I had lunch with Johnny Depp when I was three months old.

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

My dog Jake ran up to Dolly Parton, and he put his nose up her skirt. We were like, 'Oh my God, don't do that.' I didn't know Dolly, and she said, 'Watch out there little doggie, don't start something you can't finish.'

Did you know I was born in a Holiday Inn.

Smaller-than-Medium-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

Roosevelt, according to a story told by Hopkins, was once wheeled into Churchill's bedroom just as the prime minister was emerging from his bath, stark naked. The president, flustered, told his attendant to back him out of the room, but Churchill theatrically declared, "The Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to conceal from the President of the United States.

I was born by Cesarean section, but you can't really tell. Except that when I leave my house, I always go out the window.

Measured my 'thing'. It was eleven centimetres.

I have sold stuff door-to-door, but not doors.

I was husband for a week. Changed the baby's diapers. There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know i wiped his ass

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

Pero eso no se lo cuento a ella. Porque es el tipo de anécdota que compartes con una buena amiga. Y sólo he tenido una buena amiga.

Desde entonces la gente lo recuerda como Juan del Pedo.

Years later my Popo would laugh and tell people that if she hadn't knocked him out in the first round, he'd still be wandering around in love with the stars.

Mucho se me olvida o se me tuerce, no retengo lugares, fechas ni nombres, en cambio jamás se me escapa una buena historia.

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

I'm just one of those people who can always tell the same story twice, forgetting that I've told it already.