Diary Quotes - page 3

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. (Eudora Welty)
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. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane. View quote
Taylor Swift
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. View quote
Anne Sexton
I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary. View quote
Kid Cudi
Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Every novelist knows – perhaps everyone knows who has written even a letter, or a page of a diary – that the process of composition involves two separate sensibilities. View quote
John Banville
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. View quote
Enoch Powell
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government. View quote
Bruce Schneier
The plane droned on through the black sky, above the clouds masking the Atlantic. It suddenly occurred to Michael that he ought to look at the moon. He hadn't seen it all the time he was in Paris, nor the stars. He slid up the blind of his window and peered out. There was no moon visible. When he consulted his diary he discovered that it had set, a tiny sliver, at exactly the time the plane had taken off from London. View quote
John Brunner
I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices - it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath - someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts ... just an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown .... [being given] free rein [by director Christopher Nolan was] fun, because there are no real boundaries to what The Joker would say or do. Nothing intimidates him, and everything is a big joke. (Heath Ledger)
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. View quote
Edvard Munch
It is not normal for a Deputy Prime Minister to end up running a Prime Minister's diary, chairing staff meetings. It's not normal for a Deputy Prime Minister to be trying to manage so that quality speeches are given. View quote
Julia Gillard
I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments. View quote
Anne Frank
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. View quote
Francois Truffaut
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. View quote
Peter Greenaway
This book ['Diary of a Genius', by Dali] will prove that that the daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, his ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from those of the rest of mankind. View quote
Salvador Dalí
A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary. View quote
Andy Warhol
But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn't show me where my manhood was. You need a man to teach you how to be a man. When I was young I was quiet, withdrawn. I read a lot, wrote poetry, kept a diary. I watched TV all day. I stayed in front of the television. It was when I was in front of the TV by myself, being alone in the house by myself, having to cook dinner by myself, eat by myself. Just being by myself and looking at TV, at families and all these people out there in this pretend world. I knew I could be part of it if I pretended too, So early on I just watched and emulated ... and I just thirsted for that. I thought if I could be and act like those characters, act like those people, I could have some of their joy. If I could act like I had a big family I wouldn't feel as lonely. View quote
Tupac Shakur
What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
He wrote down everything he saw and heard, and most of his thoghts, sometimes in verse, sometimes in prose. It could take him many hours to write in his diary a survey of one full day: everything was an experience, any noteworthy observation which some nameless person might make was a new vista, any insignificant piece of information was a new sunrise, any ordinary poem he read for the first time was the beginning of a new epoch like a flight around the globe; the world was multiform, magnificent and opulent, and he loved it. (Halldór Laxness)
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another;.. View quote
J. M. Barrie
Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out. View quote
Kurt Cobain
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. View quote
Franz Kafka
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. View quote
Franz Kafka