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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.»
«Dani?s like Mogadon on two legs. She?s a 20-minute anecdote with no punchline.»
«His memoir is a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the thistles as well are edible.»
Author: John Leonard
| Keywords:
anecdote, anecdotes, artichoke, artichokes, edible, splendid, thistle, thistles
«As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer»
«He uses anecdotes for the same reason other people climb mountains - they are there.»
«As the Silks walk around the Establishment and poke it with a stick flocks of multicolored anecdotes rise into the air on flapping wings, and, occasionally, a bee stings.»
Author: John Leonard
| Keywords:
anecdote, anecdotes, flap, flapping, flaps, multicolored, poke, poking, silks, The Establishment, walking stick
«Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Anecdotes
| Keywords:
anecdote, anecdotes, appropriate, impressive, striking, vehicles
«A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Politics
| Keywords:
anecdote, anecdotes, Coming out, cut, cutting taxes, economic, illness, tax, tax cut, tax cuts, The Illness
«A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Anecdotes,
Maxim
| Keywords:
anecdote, anecdotes, collection, intersperse, man of the world, occasions, recollect, recollected, treasures
«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.''»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
anecdote, cent, distinguished, enables, Golden Age, golden mean, instantly, lands, land mines, million years ago, mines, Modern Age, modern society, mutual, newspaper, peculiar, promised land, reliance, remark, speculator, speculators, The Golden Age, The Modern Age, unlimited
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