In an anecdote Jarmusch has recounted of the formative experience of showing his mentor his first script, Ray disapproved of its lack of action, to which Jarmusch responded after meditating on the critique by reworking the script to be even less eventful.

This work is taken as a chronicle of the last and greatest of the persecutions, in spite of the moral point each anecdote has been arranged to tell.

One famous anecdote has her mother bartering a German-made sewing machine for sixty kilograms of rice with which to feed the family.

One anecdote has Quinn arriving on-set for the first time in full costume, whereupon Lean, mistaking him for a native, asked his assistant to ring Quinn and notify him that they were replacing him with the new arrival.

" The quote is apocryphal ; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that " The long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals ... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change.

In Mormonism, testifying is also referred to as " bearing one's testimony ," and often involves the sharing of personal experience — ranging from a simple anecdote to an account of personal revelation — followed by a statement of belief that has been confirmed by this experience.

His wit was legendary ; an anecdote has a fellow professor saying to him " I have discovered a french expression in Cicero.

The doctor from whom Lord Peter originally heard the anecdote has moved on and is not grateful to be vindicated.

" Although Matlock has said that one of his biggest influences is the Faces, the Beatles anecdote is fictional.

Campan recalls a pleasant anecdote: the king said to the duc de Noailles, that with Madame du Barry he had discovered new pleasures ; " Sire-answered the duke-that's because your Majesty has never been in a brothel.

" The anecdote has been proven to be a completely fictional story.

One anecdote has the village children, displeased with his serious temperament, throwing him into Lake Erie.

This celebrated story is told with variations by many ancient authors, and a similar anecdote has been told of Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna, and ( if the names be not fictitious ) Panacius and Acestinus.

He frequently begins a technical discussion with an anecdote that draws parallels between a real-life experience he has had, and the article's subject matter.

For example, the Stan Rogers song, " Barrett's Privateers ", being sung in a traditional style and having lyrics that relate an anecdote of maritime history, makes a convincing sea ballad and has been adopted into the repertoire of maritime music performers.

The later tale has plainly incorporated elements from the famouos anecdote of " Luck of the Sea and Luck of the Mountains " ( Hoderi and Hoori ) found in Nihon Shoki.

In his appearances, he has frequently attacked the government, and once memorably misheard the host mentioning Ant and Dec as Anton du Beke, and proceeded to tell an anecdote about du Beke.

Richard Nisbett of the University of Michigan has described the Hawthorne effect as ' a glorified anecdote ,' saying that ' once you have got the anecdote, you can throw away the data.

An anecdote told by Ernest Hemingway has an enraged Cocteau charging Radiguet ( known in the Parisian literary circles as " Monsieur Bébé " – Mister Baby ) with decadence for his tryst with a model: " Bébé est vicieuse.

The anecdote has achieved the status of an urban legend on the Internet, as there are numerous versions in which the name of the scientist varies ( e. g., Arthur Stanley Eddington, Thomas Huxley, Linus Pauling, or Carl Sagan ) although the rest is the same.

In introductions to it he has told the anecdote of a psychiatrist and patient who admitted they had discussed it one day in therapy, without realizing at the time that one had read one book and one the other.

According to an anecdote by Serpent Isle project leader Bill Armintrout, Origin Systems has lost the source code to both " Serpent Isle " and its add-on " The Silver Seed ", and Electronic Arts is not planning on any kinds of rewrites for modern systems.

Reiniger has expressed mild interest in the title and suggests passing it to his younger brother Harlan Reiniger a historian and PBS documentary producer, but in general considers the title an anecdote and curiosity of no real world importance.

But last week, when a reporter was standing near Mantle's locker, Mickey walked up and volunteered an anecdote.

According to an anecdote preserved by Suetonius, Caesar did not deny that Catullus's lampoons left an indelible stain on his reputation, but when Catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day.

Hotel archivist Susan Scott recounts an anecdote that, when he was being taken out of the building on a stretcher shortly before his death in 2002, he raised his hand and told the diners " it was the food.

An old anecdote recounts that when Strauss's wife Adele asked Brahms to autograph her fan, he wrote the first few notes of the " Blue Danube " waltz, and then wrote the words " Unfortunately not by Johannes Brahms!

Former president of the BVI's Financial Services Commission, Michael Riegels, recites the anecdote that the industry commenced on an unknown date in the 1970s when a lawyer from a firm in New York telephoned him with a proposal to incorporate a company in the British Virgin Islands to take advantage of a double taxation relief treaty with the United States.

One anecdote of the conflict recounts June 1879 when the Santa Fe defended its roundhouse in Pueblo with Dodge City toughs led by Bat Masterson ; on that occasion, D & RG treasurer R. F. Weitbrec paid the defenders to leave.

" This is the only film where Fields doesn't ad lib, and he plays the character in a straightforward manner ( although he did want to add a juggling sequence, and when this was denied, an anecdote about snakes, which was also denied ).

Elizabeth was aware of the political ramifications of the story of Richard II: according to a well-known but dubious anecdote, in August 1601 she was reviewing historical documents relating to the reign of Richard II when she supposedly remarked to her archivist William Lambarde, " I am Richard II, know ye not that?

His nickname derives from an anecdote, preserved only in a thirteenth-century manuscript, that when he met the Emperor Henry III at Verona in 1046, he refused to enter the emperor's chambers without his large train of knights, his " tail ".

Bede relates an anecdote that the British bishops consulted a wise hermit as to how to respond to Augustine when he arrived for the second council.

: ` And this the Presbyter used to say is in the plural implying John the Elder would employ this argument multiple times in defense of Mark's Gospel: " Mark, being the recorder of Peter, wrote accurately but not in order whatever he remembered of the things either said or done by the Lord ; for he had neither heard the Lord nor followed him, but later, as I said, Peter, who used to make teachings according to the cheias, special kind of anecdote but not making as it were a systematic composition of the Lord's sayings ; so that Mark did not err at all when he wrote certain things just as he had recalled.

The 1944 Cerf anecdote features instead a young New York woman visiting the Carolina plantation of distant relatives, with the hearse's coachman eventually revealed to be the operator of a medical building elevator that plummets when its cables break.

A family anecdote tells that when she was two, she went shopping with her mother but wandered away in the market.

Henry is said to have disliked his younger brother, Charles, and teased him, although this derives from only one anecdote: when Charles was nine years of age, Henry snatched off the hat of a bishop and put it on the younger child's head, then told his younger brother that when he became king he would make Charles Archbishop of Canterbury, and then Charles would have a long robe to hide his ugly rickety legs.

There's a historical anecdote that soldiers in Saint Petersburg were said to chant " Constantine and Constitution ", but when questioned, many of them professed to believe that " Constitution " ( Russian konstitutsiya ) was Constantine's wife.

* A famous anecdote by Parson Weems claims that George Washington once cut a tree over when he was a small child.

# The epigram received a great development in its second or Alexandrian era, when its range was extended to include anecdote, satire, and amorous longing ; when epitaphs and votive inscriptions were composed on imaginary persons and things.

However, there are no sources indicating the reason for Wallenstein's conversion, except for a subjunctive anecdote by his contemporary Franz Christoph von Khevenmüller about Virgin Mary saving Wallenstein's life when he fell from a window in Innsbruck.

Another anecdote from the late 1940s tells how the socialist intellectual G. D. H. Cole got into a third-class compartment on the train back from Oxford to London, to break off conversation with Simon ; to his dismay Simon followed suit, only for both men to produce first class tickets when the inspector did his rounds.

According to anecdote, he was close to Wellington when his leg was hit, and exclaimed, " By God, sir, I've lost my leg!

One well known and possibly apocryphal anecdote maintains that when Vernet was asked to remove a certain obnoxious general from one of his paintings, he replied, " I am a painter of history, sire, and I will not violate the truth ," hence demonstrating his fidelity to representing war truthfully.

There is a well-known anecdote about where Lowell lived when he first arrived at Kenyon.