47 Quotes About Anecdotes

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.

In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.

Some people exclaim, "Give me no anecdotes of an author, but give me his works," and yet I have often found that the anecdotes are more interesting than the works

The audience will feel like Chita is talking to them personally. It's not like a play. It's like this woman is sitting on a chair, telling you these fascinating anecdotes in such a natural way that it's as if you were sitting in the living room with her.

Good anecdote--bad reality.

There aren't many opportunities for celebs to do promotion that doesn't involve anecdotes about a crazy vacation.

There aren't many opportunities for celebrities to do promotion that doesn't involve five-minute anecdotes about a crazy vacation. You really see them being themselves.

Be warm and personal by backing it up with examples, stories and anecdotes that the person on the other end of the phone can relate to and understand.