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

Anecdotes came with his DNA. — Chris Matthews

The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations. — Maurice Bejart

I don't do anecdotes. I accumulate experiences. — James Rosenquist

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes — Isaac Barrow

When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. — Nicholas Kristof

He was not witty, nor did he deal in anecdotes. — Anthony Trollope

A life saved is a statistic; a person hurt is an anecdote. Statistics are invisible; anecdotes are salient. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

More Americans, and I have my own anecdotes of people that have a friend that never would've had a gun, thought about, and now is thinking about it. — Chuck Todd

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about. — Alice Munro

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books. — Lauren Weisberger

I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes. — Bill Bryson

The plural of anecdotes is not data — Ben Goldacre

I'm no good at anecdotes. — Kelly Macdonald

Anecdotes generate questions, not answers. — Steven Novella

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Dangerous events were transformed over the years into humorous anecdotes; painful moments were modified into sweet tales of innocence. — Nicholas Sparks

Life is the episodic collection of anecdotes that has some deeper meaning. — Surbhi Sareen

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes. — Nicolas Chamfort

I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such. — John Thorn

I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me ... anecdotes. But never a joke. — Lucille Ball

I need to return briefly to a few incidents that have grown into anecdotes, to some approximate memories which time has deformed into certainty. — Julian Barnes

I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous. — Cate Blanchett

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger. — Chuck Palahniuk

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.' — S. Ansky

I think in Russia, there's a lot of storytelling and anecdotes. — Eugene Mirman

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do. — Anita Roddick

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

Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes. — Caitlin Moran

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. — Robert Quillen

What is the point of bad dates if not to have amusing anecdotes for your friends? — Gabrielle Zevin

A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness. — Steve Martin

If you let yourself tell those smaller anecdotes or stories, the overarching capital-S Story will eventually rise into view. — Mary Karr

I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. — Chuck Palahniuk

Enough anecdotes make a pattern. — George F. Will

Oh yes," said Nanny Piggins. "I can regale people with anecdotes from my sordid past and think at the same time. — R.A. Spratt

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times. — Mark Rothko

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

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

The plural on anecdote is not evidence — Michael Mauboussin

She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory. — Margaret Atwood

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