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Quotes About Diary

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.
~ Sam Smith
In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.
~ Colleen McCullough
In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
~ Liza Minnelli
Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
~ Rachel Joyce
I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.
~ Louise Bourgeois
I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.
~ Carrie Fisher
I've kept a diary since I was seven years old, and I still write in mine.
~ Sasha Spielberg
I always wanted to have a diary growing up but was too lazy to commit to one.
~ Stacy Martin
A lot of music is like a diary for me.
~ Bonobo
The 28th Division situation is going from bad to worse," First Army's war diary noted on Tuesday. Cota could only agree.
~ Rick Atkinson
I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.
~ Rob Thomas
But here and now I record this vow, most solemnly, in my diary, My pen shall heal, not hurt.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
~ James M. Barrie
My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
~ Taylor Momsen
For now, why not write things down where no one will see it?
~ Jennifer Niven
When I´m done, I put the letter in my diary instead of in my hat box. I have a feeling I´m not done-done yet, that there´s still more I need to say, I just haven´t thought of it yet.
~ Jenny Han
Back before the internet, libraries were great places to speed; your personal nook in the old magazine racks, where you'd spend hours combing microfilm for references to amphetamines. Taylor Mead, On Amphetamine and In Europe: Excerpts from the Anonymous Diary of a New York Youth, Volume Three (Boss Books, 1968, 251 Pages).
~ Jerry Stahl
Later, Dodd wrote a description of Hitler in his diary. "He is romantic-minded and half-informed about great historical events and men in Germany." He had a "semi-criminal" record. "He has definitely said on a number of occasions that a people survives by fighting and dies as a consequence of peaceful policies. His influence is and has been wholly belligerent.
~ Erik Larson
The dinner became infamous. Later, in midsummer, Britain's Ambassador Phipps would observe in his diary that of the seven people who sat down to dine at the Regendanz mansion that night, four had been murdered, one had fled the country under threat of death, and another had been imprisoned in a concentration camp. Phipps wrote, "The list of casualties for one dinner party might make even a Borgia envious.
~ Erik Larson
Moonlight was a particular source of dread. That Friday, August 16, Cockett wrote in her diary, "With this gorgeous moon we all expect more tonight.
~ Erik Larson
The one firm rock on which everyone was willing to build for the last two years was the French army," wrote Foreign Secretary Halifax in his diary, "and the Germans walked through it like they did through the Poles.
~ Erik Larson
In shelters, the danger posed by poison gas was a particular concern. People were encouraged to wear their gas masks for thirty minutes a day, so that they would grow accustomed to their use. Children took part in gas-attack drills. All the little children of five have Mickey Mouse gasmasks, wrote Diana Cooper in her diary. They love putting them on for drill and at once start trying to kiss each other, then they march into their shelter singing: 'There'll always be an England.
~ Erik Larson
It's not the bombs I'm scared of any more, it's the weariness," wrote a female civil servant in her Mass-Observation diary—"trying to work and concentrate with your eyes sticking out of your head like hat-pins, after being up all night. I'd die in my sleep, happily, if only I could sleep.
~ Erik Larson
A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.
~ Andy Warhol