Diaries Quotes - Page 5

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

I just want people to feel the emotion that's in the record. For me it's very raw and beautiful, I guess it's kind of like a diary for me. I'd love for people to be able to listen to it and it make them dance and cry and the same time.

A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary], and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

I spent years crying in my diary. But I finally stopped finding fault with myself. We're all different, yet the same.

Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.

I've kept a diary since I was 11.

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.