Diaries Quotes · Page 2

A diary means yes indeed.

— Gertrude Stein

Don't read my diary when I'm gone.

— Kurt Cobain

I don't want to be singing my diary.

— Norah Jones

Keeping a diary supports personal development.

— Stefan Sagmeister

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

— Andy Warhol

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

— Lily Allen

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

— Taylor Swift

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

— Anna Nalick

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

— Anonymous

It seems to me that [Andy Cohen] can write these diaries forever.

— Anderson Cooper

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

— Matthew McConaughey

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

— Lenny Kravitz

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has…

— Gordon S. Wood

Someone once said; It's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me? I just wanna live…

— Anonymous

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or…

— Lemn Sissay

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

— Ken Burns

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

— Vartan Gregorian

My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of…

— Zlata Filipović

When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even…

— Jonathan Stroud

“When I moved, I unearthed the diaries I kept for ten years. I sat and went through them and they were a…

— Bill Callahan

We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And…

— Shelby Harris

Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for…

— George Meredith

Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to…

— Cliff Sloan

The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the…

— Robert Burchfield

My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look…

— Dave Navarro

Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of…

— Agnes Repplier

Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia…

— Virginia Woolf

Think about Mann's own daily routine (ascribed to Aschenbach), read the extant diaries and the letters in which he discusses the novella's…

— Philip Kitcher

Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be…

— Frank Smith

Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries. Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to…

— Dean Koontz

The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and…

— Virginia Woolf

Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up…

— John Berendt

Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the…

— Jane Austen

I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying,…

— Nikki Sixx

Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer,…

— Laini Taylor

I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Douglas Pagels

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

— Erin Gruwell

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

— Stefan Sagmeister

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

— Chuck Palahniuk