Quotes about Diary

In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us. Votes: 4

Dear Diary, the Heroine never cries. Votes: 3

I think Diary of a Wimpy kidis sooooo good!!!!!!! Votes: 3

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19) Votes: 3

Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count. Votes: 3

I read 'The Rum Diary,' and I didn't really like it very much. Votes: 3

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip. Votes: 3

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered. Votes: 3

Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading. Votes: 3

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing. Votes: 3

I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point? Votes: 3

I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary] , and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically. Votes: 3

When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor. Votes: 3

When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor. Votes: 3

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.[Diary entry, 1971] Votes: 3

. . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare- Diary of A Combat Fiend Votes: 3

If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch's works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul. Votes: 3

My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm [Kushner, Rachel, Diary, London Review of Books, January 14, 2015]. Votes: 3

[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful. Votes: 3

I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time. Votes: 3

I saw Roland Barthes's 'Mourning Diary' at a bookshop, and I felt it was like I was destined to see the book. I read it all in one go while I was in the shop. The book was mind-blowing. Votes: 3

All right, you caught me. I'm secretly obsessed with you and spend all my free time writing about you in my journal. 'Dear Diary, today Will was an ass for the 467th day in a row. He's so dreamy" Votes: 3

I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her? Votes: 3

Exercise II.Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:Dear Diary,I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity. God alive, I feel supple. Votes: 3

I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living. Votes: 3

My life always came first. When I got nominated for Diary of a Mad Housewife, I didn't think, 'Aah, now I'll get more money.' My dream had always just been to do my works well, fall in love and build a life for myself. Votes: 3

When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America. Votes: 3

A diary means yes indeed. Votes: 2

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Votes: 2

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. Votes: 2

It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed. Votes: 2

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary. Votes: 2

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Votes: 2

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president. Votes: 2

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot. Votes: 2

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary. Votes: 2

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. Votes: 2

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. Votes: 2

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. Votes: 2

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape. Votes: 2

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both. Votes: 2

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me. Votes: 2

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. Votes: 2

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. Votes: 2

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl. Votes: 2

When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all the time. But I can whip out a BlackBerry and tweet. I keep a constant diary of where I'm at and why I'm there. Votes: 2

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. Votes: 2

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude. Votes: 2

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone. Votes: 2

The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Keeping a diary supports personal development. Votes: 0

Everyone should keep someone else's diary. Votes: 0

My diary seems to keep me whole. Votes: 0

I've kept a diary since I was 11. Votes: 0

Don't read my diary when I'm gone, Votes: 0

Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary. Votes: 0

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you Votes: 0

I don't want to be singing my diary. Votes: 0

Listening to my songs is like reading my diary. Votes: 0

A great library contains the diary of the human race. Votes: 0

If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. Votes: 0

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you. Votes: 0

For me, my music has always been like an open diary. Votes: 0

Mrs Cameron keeps a rather better weekend diary than I do. Votes: 0

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. Votes: 0

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out. Votes: 0

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. Votes: 0

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. Votes: 0

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life. Votes: 0

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. Votes: 0

I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music. Votes: 0

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels. Votes: 0

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names. Votes: 0

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. Votes: 0

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything. Votes: 0

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever. Votes: 0

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial. Votes: 0

An introspective man who doesn't keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell Votes: 0

Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind. Votes: 0

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter. Votes: 0

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. Votes: 0

I would rather have someone read my diary than look at my iPod playlists. Votes: 0

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend. Votes: 0

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me? Votes: 0

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened. Votes: 0

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me~? Votes: 0

I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to. Votes: 0

A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household. Votes: 0

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. Votes: 0

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary. Votes: 0

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it. Votes: 0

I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it! Votes: 0

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary. Votes: 0

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. Votes: 0

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing. Votes: 0

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers? Votes: 0

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. Votes: 0

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal. Votes: 0

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone. Votes: 0

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need. Votes: 0

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. Votes: 0

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane. Votes: 0

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music. Votes: 0

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music. Votes: 0

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium. Votes: 0

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary. Votes: 0

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly. Votes: 0

... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary. Votes: 0

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing. Votes: 0

Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. Votes: 0

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary. Votes: 0

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened. Votes: 0

I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd, 'cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud. Votes: 0

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. Votes: 0

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary. Votes: 0

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can. Votes: 0

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. Votes: 0

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul. Votes: 0

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly. Votes: 0

A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen. Votes: 0

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed. Votes: 0

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary. Votes: 0

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be. Votes: 0

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. Votes: 0

My diary entries allow me to keep track of all the things I would like to change about my life. Votes: 0

I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary. Votes: 0

My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence. Votes: 0

I spent years crying in my diary. But I finally stopped finding fault with myself. We're all different, yet the same. Votes: 0

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera. Votes: 0

The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile." Votes: 0

The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile. Votes: 0

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self. Votes: 0

History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past. Votes: 0

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity. Votes: 0

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?' Votes: 0

...I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour. Votes: 0

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary. Votes: 0

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections. Votes: 0

whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like. Votes: 0

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. Votes: 0

I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary. Votes: 0

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government. Votes: 0

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary. Votes: 0

Experience in itself wasn't enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I'd missed it. Votes: 0

I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love diary format. Votes: 0

Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse. Votes: 0

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little." Votes: 0

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next. Votes: 0

Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. Votes: 0

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. Votes: 0

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections. Votes: 0

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two Votes: 0

Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive. Votes: 0

Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it. Votes: 0

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light. Votes: 0

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. Votes: 0

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time. Votes: 0

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day. Votes: 0

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd. Votes: 0

With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings." Votes: 0

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Votes: 0

An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one. Votes: 0

I'm never without my personalised Anya Hindmarch diary - I keep my schedule online, too, but my diary is always in my bag. It's crammed Post-its. Votes: 0

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment. Votes: 0

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down. Votes: 0

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me. Votes: 0

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant. Votes: 0

Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind Votes: 0

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem. Votes: 0

I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because its part of my journey. Votes: 0

I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because it's part of my journey. Votes: 0

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation. Votes: 0

Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary. Votes: 0

My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured. Votes: 0

Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp. Votes: 0

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one. Votes: 0

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. Votes: 0

Find out your most limiting tasks and deal with them as early as possible. Use a diary, and jot little points of reminder about specific tasks for reference later. Votes: 0

[John F. Kennedy] kept a diary and in the White House dictated his thoughts. He felt real guilt at the killing of [Ngo Dinh] Diem, the leader of South Vietnam. Votes: 0

The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden. Votes: 0

your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary. Votes: 0

I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick. Votes: 0

I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking from the diary. I had mistaken it for love. Votes: 0

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author. Votes: 0

Being acknowledged by 'Vogue' and invited to do 'Today I'm Wearing' was a really great moment for me, and the photo diary of my outfits was a really fun thing to do. Votes: 0

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars. Votes: 0

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary. Votes: 0

What goes in the mind is forgotten, what goes in the stomach just passes through, but that which goes in the heart is locked, like a keepsake diary, that never leaves you. Votes: 0

[John Adams] diary, of course, is even more revealing of his feelings. Both his letters to [his wife] Abigail and his diary tell us what he really thinks about people and events. Votes: 0

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out. Votes: 0

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. Votes: 0

I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes close read, and to reveal that much, it's a bit nerve-racking. Votes: 0

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it. Votes: 0

The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation. Votes: 0

Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it. Votes: 0

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness. Votes: 0

My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready and willing to accept anything and everything I had to say. Votes: 0

I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends, and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper. Votes: 0

I am thinking of keeping a diary, not with the intend to publish it, merely to record the facts for the information of God, in case God does not know my version of the facts. Votes: 0

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love. Votes: 0

For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage. Votes: 0