Best 171 quotes in «diaries quotes» category

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

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

In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots. Since then, I have received plenty of carrots. Now I also have a keen interest in women who like Lamborghinis.

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

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

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

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

I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin.

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

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 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.

I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass his previous fiction; sometimes the diaries express this in terms of a dejected judgment that the summit has already been reached.

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.

It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head – I can’t help it.

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.

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

I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

I want to live my life, not record it.

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

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

I will write myself into well-being.

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

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.

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

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

My diary seems to keep me whole.

My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

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

My photos are my diary. Every photo is no more than the representation of a single day. And each day contains the past and the projection into the future. That's why I feel compelled to indicate the date on every picture I take.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

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.

Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a fight. I'd have loved to rebut him sooner, but it takes awhile to look these things up.

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

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

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.