Diaries Quote by Andy Cohen

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.

— Andy Cohen

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Agnes Repplier

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

— Stephen Tobolowsky

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic…

— William Safire

A diary means yes indeed.

— Gertrude Stein

Superficiality: The denial of facing reality.

— Andrew Cervantes

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

— Zach Gilford

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.

— Maryanne Wolf

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

— Howard Hodgkin

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

— Samuel Johnson

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no…

— Wallace Stevens