Journal Quotes · Page 8

The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to…

— Stephen Greenblatt

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

— Anonymous

I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.

— Rodney Brooks

I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.

— Emma Caulfield

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to…

— Tom Brokaw

Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the…

— Anonymous

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept…

— Ariel Gore

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of…

— Walter Dean Myers

In fact, some leaders come right out and say it. Mario Draghi the president of the European Central Bank had an interview…

— Noam Chomsky

These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals…

— Alice Sebold

Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York City has a higher percentage of people you shouldn't make any…

— David Letterman

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think…

— Peter Mayle

I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from…

— Eric Stoltz

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment…

— Marcia Angell

I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online…

— Masha Tupitsyn

The Democratic Party's problem is that voters don't believe the president's claims that the economy is thriving. Even people with jobs feel…

— Karl Rove

“How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the…

— Yukio Mishima

Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the…

— Anna Kamienska

Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one…

— Kevin Keck

I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually…

— Joseph Addison

As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did.…

— Elizabeth Crook

Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are…

— Jane Austen

I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to…

— Mayim Bialik

I like to meditate, take baths at home with essential oils and salts and write in a journal.

— Camille Kostek

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and…

— Erica Jong

I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology…

— Lara Pulver

A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted…

— Paul Harvey

Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts…

— Madonna Ciccone

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult…

— Chath Piersath

My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product.…

— Kevin Henkes

I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was…

— Paul Auster

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

— Brady Corbet

A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are…

— Fritjof Capra

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children…

— Wilford Woodruff

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

— Jim Jarmusch

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

— Magic Johnson

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

— Sue Monk Kidd