Quotes About Anecdote

Sliced off like a chicken neck and stuck with a hatpin. Reminded me of my husband." Lula leaned forward so she could whisper. "You talking about size? Was your man's part that big?" "Heck no," Grandma said. "His part was that dead.

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

The girl I took to the prom was 5-4. When we slow-danced, she stood on a chair.

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

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

I knew a chap who bumped his leg, and it turned black and had to be cut off at the knee.' 'You do seem to mix with the most extraordinary people.

Of course I think so. Have you forgotten what I told you the other day?' 'Yes,' said Lord Emsworth. He always forgot what people told him the other day.

I knew a man once who stammered, said Jimmy. He used to chew dog biscuit while he was speaking. It cured him. Besides being nutritious.

Bayliss resumed reading. He was one of those readers who, whether their subject be a murder case or funny anecdote, adopt a measured and sepulchral delivery which gives a suggestion of tragedy and horror to whatever they read. At the church he attended, children would turn pale and snuggle up to their mothers when he read.

"Oh, and this one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy…"

One story deserves another

Qué nadie se ría de la única anécdota que he narrado aquí. En buena hora podrán ustedes reírse de cuanta cosa haya escrito yo en estas páginas. Pero no cuando se trata de Robinson Crusoe. ¡Por dios! Porque es este un asunto serio para mí..., y les ruego que lo tomen ustedes de la misma manera, por lo tanto.

L'anecdote, cette moisissure qui se forme sur tous les livres.

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.

Whenever anyone tells me that history's boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.

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

I can't fight. I was once run over by a car with a flat tire, being pushed by two guys.

I had a myocardial infarction that registered at the oceanography lab in Tokyo.

The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

Later you referenced that anecdote to illustrate that my expectations were always preposterously outsized; that my very ravenousness for the exotic was self-destructive, because as soon as I seized upon the otherworldly, it joined this world and didn't count.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the first family anecdote that was told.

I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.