It's an anecdote.

I was very influenced by that anecdote.

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Did not qualify No.

I have to end that one.

So, before I finsih, let me tell you a story.

Oblonsky's anecdote was very amusing too.

Let me speak anecdotally.

I should like to tell one final anecdote.

Ronald Reagan was a master of the well selected anecdote.

My daughter gave me a rather nice anecdote on this.

This is an anecdote from his travels in South America.

We have already discussed this question in previous contexts in the past.

I still have two minutes left let me tell you a funny story about this.

Mr President, may I quote a literary anecdote for those timorous spirits among us?

That anecdote has parallels with the current preoccupation with global warming.

He made use of it in his Tusculanae Disputationes , V. 21, by which means it passed into the European cultural mainstream.

I was glad to get away... .

To tell you just an example, an anecdote about their rarity,

I don't know if you've heard this anecdote, but I have.

You can tell a true anecdote, but your date may not laugh.

But there was one interesting anecdote that I found in Indonesia.

And the second thing, it's an anecdote that I'll leave you with.

But it stays an anecdote because the public couldn't identify to it.

I have to end that one. This is my tribute to Clare Boothe Luce.

Bring another bottle!...' he called to the waiter, and immediately began telling the story.

The longer the story can continue without the audience realising it is a joke, and not a serious anecdote, the more successful it is.

Consider the historical context of your topic, or an anecdote or some larger idea or concept.

So before I start, I want to talk about a little anecdote, a little story about a man I met once in Mumbai.

Today I want to tell you a short anecdote that hopefully can help you today with your game.

Take the story, perhaps apocryphal, of an Indian diplomat showing a map of South Asia to Stalin.

He, too, is said to have a predisposition for wreaking havoc according to an anecdote, he once set fire to an office computer.

After being found to be infected, more than 15 million cattle have been slaughtered, with the result that cases of these diseases have fallen dramatically.

His widow, Anna Lisa Björling, published a biography with the cooperation of Andrew Farkas that described Björling as a loving family man and generous colleague.

The Eötvös pendulum was used to prove the equivalence of the inertial mass and the gravitational mass accurately, as a response to the offer of a prize.

And then you'd see an image of Britney Spears to remind you of this funny anecdote you want to tell.

So, let's pull back from the anecdotes for a second and look at our society from high above.

August 19 marked sixteen years since the beginning of the Soviet Union's collapse. On this day, LJ user galerist (Marat Guelman, gallery owner from Moscow) happened to post a sketch (RUS) on his visit to a rich client's estate a sketch that, in a way, highlighted some of the changes that have and have not occurred since 1991

I'll start with an anecdote, or for those of you who are Monty Python lovers, a Monty Python type of sketch.

A brief monologue beginning Once J. Edgar Hoover popped in a bar... will be an anecdote.

And one of the things that I learned, too, from my parents and I'll give you a little anecdote especially from my father.

Just as they are the main beneficiaries politically and economically of the progress which has been made so far towards the unification of Europe.

According to an anecdote, the inhabitants of Gumbinnen were embarrassed by the name and asked King Friedrich Wilhelm IV for a name change.

Reuther's problem in that anecdote is that it is tough to offer your labor to an economy that's full of machines, and we see this very clearly in the statistics.

An anecdote in Bebra has it that in the years after the war, people did not ask Where do you work? but rather Where on the railway do you work? .