Best 171 quotes in «diaries quotes» category

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

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

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

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

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.

But we don’t remember those lives. We can’t read our diaries.’ ‘It doesn’t matter. We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.’ ‘But can we choose that?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘We’re Dead. Can we really choose anything?’ ‘Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it.

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

Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him

Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

First of all, let me get this straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECIFICALLY told her to get one that didn't say 'diary' on it.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.

Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

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

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

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

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.

I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things I had read, and I wanted to do the same to others. I don't think it ever was the notion of an autobiography; I skipped that phase totally, I think.

If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.

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.

I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

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.

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

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.

I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

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.

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

I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

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.

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

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

I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.

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

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.

I love scary movies, but I'd never really even seen The Vampire Diaries, up until I met [Kevin Williamson].

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

I’m conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there’s this really awesome restaurant I’ve been wanting to try out.

I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?

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

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

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

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

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

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

I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don't want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what's going on isn't just tides and tsunamis. I don't want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn't start this diary for it to be a record of death.

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.