Journal Quotes · Page 9

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

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as…

— Francoise Gilot

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

— Masha Tupitsyn

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New…

— Michael Pollan

I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only…

— Anais Nin

Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by…

— Erin Gruwell

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about.…

— Lily Koppel

I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come…

— Noam Chomsky

It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the…

— Anonymous

Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers…

— Richard Lindzen

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

— Mayim Bialik

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up…

— Richard P. Feynman

“A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.…

— Edward Abbey

“It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently…

— K. Ritz

I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your…

— Spencer W. Kimball

There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright…

— Joseph Pulitzer

I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even…

— May Sarton

“I'm not crying out for help, but I am sharing my experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of…

— Ashly Lorenzana

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and…

— Harvey Pekar

I keep a journal and just kind of take notes. I don't really so much sit down and write songs - I…

— Courtney Barnett

He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with…

— Grant Morrison

I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'

— Moby

If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in…

— Abigail Van Buren

I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).

— Liza Campbell

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

— Jilly Cooper

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

— James Boswell

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You…

— Judy Collins

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

— George Fetherling

Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write…

— Amelia Gray

I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.

— Gretchen Rubin

I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to…

— Tavi Gevinson

Who or what inspires you?" "I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself.

— Eoin Colfer

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework…

— Kent Haruf