Diaries Quotes · Page 10

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his…

— John Quincy Adams

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

— Jamel Shabazz

I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was…

— Peter Beard

If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like…

— Robin Maxwell

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary…

— Erik Larson

I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they…

— Orhan Pamuk

Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every…

— Jim Atkinson

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

— Jilly Cooper

I do these conventions sometimes. We've been doing a lot of 'The Vampire Diaries' conventions, but I do Comic-Con and stuff all…

— David Anders

When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to…

— Michael Palin

Writing a diary every evening before going to bed is a good habit. We can record in the diary how much time…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people…

— Justin Hayward

The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive.…

— Anais Nin

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…

— Debra Dean

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…

— Kevin O'Leary

“She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager,…

— Lisa Genova

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

— Gabriele Munter

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

— Liv Tyler

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

— Gwen Stefani

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

— Luke Bryan

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me…

— Sara Bareilles

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving…

— Lou Doillon

Hmmm! n there r many diaries written n most of them are about ourselves! but a diary of friendz!! zz like showing…

— Sardar Hyder Abbas

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

— Eudora Welty

In our family an experience was not finished, nor truly experienced, unless written down and shared with another.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a…

— Tallulah Bankhead

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just…

— Ella Henderson

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

— Anne Frank

For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a…

— Patti Smith

I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily…

— Nick Cave

your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Nelson Mandela

For some reason, I got really obsessed with Samuel Pepys and his diaries when I read them, and with that period. I…

— Daniel Rigby

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

— Charlotte Moss

I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking…

— Jo Yoon-hee

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he…

— Hugh B. Brown

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

— Rob Thomas

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

— Jon Pareles

Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d…

— Sarah Manguso

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

— Orhan Pamuk