“The only way in which I can recuperate my humiliation is to turn it into an amusing anecdote that elicits laughter or sympathy.”

“Allow me to give you a short anecdote, to vary the wearisomeness of my discourse.”

“If a speaker does use humor in a speech, make certain the story, anecdote or joke is surefire funny with all listeners.”

“She is a terrific anecdotalist, telling each story as if for the first time.”

“He's not an historian, he's not an archivist, he's not an anecdotalist.”

“He was certainly not, however, the pale loner of police cliche, being celebrated as a wit and anecdotalist.”

“One danger of writing a piece like this one is that it opens one up to the charge of anecdotalism.”

“All manner of psychological studies and anecdata show that in the face of setbacks, grittier people tend to achieve more of their goals.”

“Self-help books make heavy use of so-called anecdata and those aimed at Realists and Denialists are no exception. ”

“None of the evidence is perfect, and some of it resembles anecdata rather than scientific data.”

“More than just anecdotage, his meandering memoir evokes an innocent time in New Zealand.”

“He is as much in his anecdotage as anyone I have interviewed, and they are not exactly new stories.”

“In his anecdotage, with so many of his old friends dead, he's discovered a new way of getting to sleep.”

“Bekker's anecdota include mention, also, 135 of the wooden seats of this temporary theatre.”

“At a rather later date I gave a chapter of additional matter of the same description in my anecdota Literaria.”

“The story also is an example of how kernels of truth are often contained in jokes or humorous anecdotes.”

“People's anecdotes and keepsakes will be used to help make a local history film and put on an exhibition in the village.”

“He was a prolific and delightful letter writer, whose anecdotes of his literary friends have been a gold mine to biographers.”