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Quotes About Diary

Pepys recorded in his diary a rather more prosaic milestone in his life. On September 25, 1660, he tried a new hot beverage for the first time, recording in his diary: "And afterwards I did send for a cup of tee (a China drink), of which I never had drank before." Whether he liked it or not Pepys didn't say, which is a shame, as it is the first mention we have in English of anyone's drinking a cup of tea.
~ Bill Bryson
Reagan was read portions of his own diary, and he said something I'll never forget: It's like I wasn't president at all. Very sad. As I reflected about this i was sure that I didn't want to badger Mark Felt in the same manner. i didn't want Felt to have to say, in effect, It's like i wasn't Deep Throat at all.
~ Bob Woodward
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
~ Bram Stoker
Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last.
~ Bram Stoker
Dear Diary Went out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep are rather depressingly thin, the pigs and princess only slightly less so. Dear Diary Went out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep are rather depressingly thin, the pigs and princess only slightly less so.
~ Tad Williams
Later that day, Eisenhower noted in his diary that in the "brief time" he had to read over the "so-called 'new' charges" he had quickly realized that "they consist of nothing more than the receipt of a letter from a man named Borden. . . ." He then correctly assessed its contents: "This letter presents little new evidence. . . .
~ Kai Bird
One week after moving to Rome, I started writing in my diary in Italian.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
A diary means yes indeed.
~ Gertrude Stein
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
~ Kate Bernheimer
The Little Paris Kitchen' was about my experience of living and cooking in Paris, 'My little French Kitchen' about my travels around France and 'Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook' was a peek into my personal cooking diary with influences from around the world.
~ Rachel Khoo
I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.
~ Anne Frank
Dear Diary, my teen-angst bullshit now has a body count. —Heathers
~ Stephen Graham Jones
I am slightly better at sleeping now during Test matches. I have a diary and I write things down, which helps. I write about decisions, a lot about opposition and stuff I want to say to the team so I am clear on the message I want to give.
~ Joe Root
I don't keep an ongoing dribble of updates of my day, but I tell little compartmentalized stories every day on Snapchat. I use it much more like making a movie than maintaining a diary. When people watch my 60-second clips, there's a beginning, middle, and end.
~ Casey Neistat
One midwestern doctor kept a diary of his daily visits to patients. He confessed that there were only two items in his black bag that actually worked. Everything else was snake oil. What actually worked was the hacksaw to cut off injured and diseased limbs, and morphine to dull the pain of amputation.)
~ Michio Kaku
I started my blog as an online diary. I moved to New York for a job, and I kind of wanted to keep my pictures all in one place. Also, I just love style blogs and wanted to join in on the fun!
~ Ashley Madekwe
I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.
~ Emma Caulfield
The saddest line you scraped in your diary was not that you cried but those moments when we both shared smile.
~ Santosh Kalwar
a sort of journal which I can write in whenever I feel inclined. I do not suppose there will be much interest to other people; but it is not intended for them.
~ Bram Stoker
Up to now I never quite knew what Shakespeare meant when he made Hamlet say, My tablets! Quick, my tablets! `tis meet that I put it down, etc., For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose.
~ Bram Stoker
Life isn't easy. Love isn't easy. Fairy tales are books we read to children. Romance novels are books that make teenagers dream of love and happily ever afters. I'm here to tell you my story. This is my diary. This is my life. This is my truth. You can't make this shit up.
~ Brenda Novak
My feelings about my mother and about our relationship are so confused that to write them down with clarity would mean I had them all figured out, which I do not. —Brooke Shields's diary
~ Brooke Shields
I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?'
~ Terry Pratchett