Diaries Quotes · Page 10

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

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

— Virginia Woolf

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Everyone should have a form of a diary its a great release Most peoples Diaries are called My Diary Mines called Conversations…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless…

— Sarah Silverman

[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

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I…

— Barbara Bush

There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with…

— Stephen Greenblatt

So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote…

— Isabel Allende

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal…

— Taylor Swift

Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of…

— Anne Frank

The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the…

— Lynda Barry

I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did…

— Anne Hathaway

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so…

— David Sedaris

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

— Anonymous

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

“Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open…

— Sara Sheridan

I wish I was like your DIARY. Wherein you will call me your DEAR, and you will tell me everything you'd think…

— Insane & Insomniac

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your…

— Bruce Schneier

Our phones don't just keep us in touch with the world; they're also diaries, confessional booths, repositories for our deepest secrets.

— Jenna Wortham

Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two…

— Helen Fielding

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

— Britt Robertson

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

Someone once said its the good girls who keep diaries because the bad girls never have the time. Me? I just wanna…

— Anonymous

My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm…

— Issa Rae

when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if…

— Janet Frame

I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely…

— Orhan Pamuk

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the…

— William Allingham

The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating…

— John Fowles

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she…

— Michael Palin

I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes…

— Masiela Lusha

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I…

— Alex Garland

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

— Anais Nin

Book five of Dork Diaries is one of my favorite books it brings my thoughts deep into the book and think if…

— Rachel Renée Russell

Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after The Princess Diaries. It taught…

— Anne Hathaway

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.

— Nathan Parsons

There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

— Sam Abell