Anecdotes Quotes

• The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.

  Daniel Hannan

  Book, Cracks, Pages

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• Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

  Tryon Edwards

  Powerful, Argument, Sometimes

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.79, Ravenio Books

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• As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

  Robert Quillen

  Funny, Age, Body

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• One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

  William Ellery Channing

  Biographies, Volume, Speakers

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• Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

  Maurice Denis

  Horse, Order, Battle

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• Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, World, Treasure

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• Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

  Anita Brookner

  Mujeres, Simple, Pensamiento

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• Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Creative, Zoologist, Psychologist

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• If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

  Anthony Holden

  Loss, Literature, May

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• Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

  Mark Rothko

  Art, Spirit

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). "Writings on Art", p.45, Yale University Press

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• The plural of anecdotes is not data

  Ben Goldacre

  Datos

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• A veces saco el comienzo de una historia de un recuerdo, una anécdota, pero eso se pierde y suele quedar irreconocible en la historia final.

  Alice Munro

  Memories, Writing, Finals

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• Alrededor de 100 cosas que tu hijo hará que te sorprenderán y te romperán el corazón y será una combinación de terapia basada en hechos, tipos de pasajes médicamente aconsejados acompañados de anécdotas de celebridades y sólo algunas cosas divertidas para aligerar la carga.

  Alan Thicke

  Corazón, Niños, Cosas divertidas

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• El arte es para mí una anécdota del espíritu, y el único medio de concretar el propósito de su variada rapidez y quietud.

  Mark Rothko

  Art, Mean, Purpose

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). "Writings on Art", p.45, Yale University Press

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• Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Two, Years

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…”, p.823, e-artnow

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• Hay tan poco que recordar de alguien: una anécdota, una conversación en una mesa. Pero cada recuerdo se repite una y otra vez, cada palabra, por fortuita que sea, se escribe en el corazón con la esperanza de que la memoria se cumpla y se haga carne, y de que los errantes encuentren el camino de vuelta a casa, y los difuntos, cuya falta siempre sentimos, atraviesen por fin la puerta y nos acaricien el pelo con soñador cariño habitual sin haber querido hacernos esperar mucho.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dream, Memories, Home

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• After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

  Louise Brooks

  Names, Giving, Lists

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• Una bajada de impuestos es realmente una de las anécdotas para salir de una enfermedad económica.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Cutting, Political

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• I'm no good at anecdotes.

  Kelly Macdonald

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Good anecdote--bad reality.

  Carrie Fisher

  Realidad

  Carrie Fisher (2009). “Wishful Drinking”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• La Biblia no es un libro para los débiles de corazón: es un libro lleno de toda la codicia, la gloria, la violencia, la ternura, el sexo y la traición que corresponden a la humanidad. No es la colección de anécdotas bonitas que cuentan los ratoncitos piadosos de las iglesias: no nos pellizca la suela de los zapatos, sino que nos llega al corazón y separa el tuétano del hueso. No nos da respuestas ajustadas a nuestras preguntas mezquinas, sino verdades que van más allá de lo que sabemos preguntar.

  Rich Mullins

  Sexo, Traición, Libro

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

  Michael Ondaatje

  Ayuda

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.234, Vintage

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• What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last trace of it had vanished from human memory; and if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before annihilation? He must be kind to them, must treasure them in his mind before their long sleep.

  James Hilton

  Fun, Memories, Home

  Henry Williamson, James Hilton, Charles Nordhoff (1939). “Novel and story: a book of modern readings”

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• 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.

  Charles Baxter

  Thinking, Stories, Whole Life

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.48, Vintage

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• Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.

  Dorothy Parker

  Animal, Stories, Analogies

  Dorothy Parker (1970). "Un mes de sábados: treinta y una piezas célebres de "Lector Constante"".

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