Quotes About Anecdote

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

Learn to read history, get all the knowledge you can, do not frown on the anecdote, but do not draw any causal links, do not try to reverse engineer too much—but if you do, do not make big scientific claims.

I view his furry storage tanks – what can a man think about while looking at a cat's nuts? Certainly not the sunken navies of great sea battles.

I've got a big mole on my butt. It's true.

Hearing the anecdote, it's easy to assume that Target's algorithms are infallible—that everybody receiving coupons for onesies and wet wipes is pregnant. But nobody ever claimed that it was true.

Good anecdote--bad reality.

I fell under the heading of: Good Anecdote, Bad Reality. I was really good for material, but when it came to day-to-day living, I was more than he could take.

But then this one time, at band camp

In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

A Polish man had his vasectomy done at Sears. Now when he makes love, the garage door goes up.

Knott-Sloman was looking displeased. He had not liked Starling's breaking into his anecdote, nor the perfunctory nod with which the little don acknowledged their introduction. Nigel was conscious of an immediate antipathy between the two— the antipathy, perhaps, between the conversationalist, who lives by give-and-take, and the man who must have monologue or nothing.

John Gielgud told us this story about Mae West. She was asked, 'Do you ever smoke after you've had sex?' She answered, 'I never looked.

STORY" is more than half of the word "HISTORY". And that's no accident.

History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or another.

Sede Hanibal Barca i Filip II u nekom kafi?u i pricaju o ratnim taktima , kad nailazi odnekud oftamolog te im rekne - A jelte vas dvojica , da nijeste možda naletili na Vasilija Drugog Bugaroubicu? xoxoxoxoxo

Hey, you know the difference between an porcupine and a Porshe?" She gave him a wary look. "What?" "A porcupine has pricks on the outside.

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

They often took a difficulty I had and turned it into an amusing little anecdote. They would take a deadly seriousness, my seriousness, and turn it into a great laugh that they would then let out into the room. What kind of people were they to do that? The amusing anecdote had sharp edges, flew into me and scratched my soul.

We heard from two bozos who I didn't know, then a guy named Matt Kruschik who ate his own boogers until fourth grade

Al escribir historia me refiero a la general o universal. No hay otra: lo que se llama historia patria es espejo del hombre -y entonces es también universal- o es una anécdota de sobremesa.

Then he told them another story and it was this story.

One day someone called the Institute and asked to speak to a particular dean. When his secretary said that the dean wasn't available, the caller hesitantly asked for Einstein's home address. That was not possible to give out, he was informed. The caller's voice then dropped to a whisper. "Please don't tell anybody," he said, "but I am Dr. Einstein, I'm on my way home, and I've forgotten where my house is."40