Quotes About Journal

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.

The journal represents the series of reference points which a writer establishes in order to keep track of himself when he begins to suspect the dangerous metamorphosis to which he is exposed. It is a route that remains viable; it is something like a watchman's walkway upon ramparts: parallel to, overlooking, and sometimes skirting around the other path—the one where to stray is the endless task. Here true things are still spoken of.

Happy entries in my journal do not exist. Or if they do, they end abruptly with scenes and sentences left unfinished because they are too gushy in a way that is disturbing and sick and foreign.

front of the part-chooserers. I am going to practise my lines ALL WEEKEND! Good night, Diary.

And anyway, when was a journal ever honest? "It either tells a lot of truths to cover a single lie," he said, "or a lot of lies to cover a single truth.

While I was waiting to die, I still had the Journal of Nineteenth-Century Studies.

Penicillin as a chemotherapeutic agent," appeared in August 1940 in the Lancet, the most widely read British medical journal.23 The journal's editors, recognizing the landmark results, had rushed it into print, two weeks before the Battle of Britain began.

We take those things we need from the Confederates' abandoned homes: salt, sugar, even this journal, near full with someone else's words, overlapped now, crosshatched beneath mine. On every page, his story intersecting with my own.

There was a pretext, albeit slender, that might have prompted Hayek to reach out to Keynes: Keynes had succeeded Edgeworth as editor of the Economic Journal in 1911. But

Placebos," Dr. Shapiro has written in the American Journal of Psychotherapy, "can have profound effects on organic illness, including incurable malignancies.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

For a girl who often felt like she lived more in the cozy world of books than in the unforgiving world of the playground, a book of books was the richest journal imaginable; it showed a version of myself I recognized and felt represented me. Over

It was laughable, he asserted, to suggest that a physician might be seduced by a glossy layout in a medical journal in the same manner that a housewife might be swayed by a slick ad in a magazine.

Next came, as near as I could tell, the journal of a madman. While it sounds interesting, it was really only a headache pressed between covers.

You were too young back then to understand how much you would later forget—and too locked in the present to realize that the person you were writing to was in fact your future self. So you put down the journal, and little by little, over the course of the next forty-seven years, almost everything was lost.

Writing a journal article combines all the elements that deter motivation: The probability of success is low; the likelihood of criticism and rejection is high; and the outcome, even if successful, isn't always rewarding.

a body on the sand. My journal gets very spotty here, with only a single detailed entry

J'ai connu un être bizarre qui croyait tout ce qu'il lisait dans un certain journal, et rien de ce qu'il lisait dans un autre. C'était un original ; enfermé depuis.

Re-reading these journal entries almost two decades after writing them has had a humbling effect on me. I am in awe of the children's learning and the resilience, courage, and intuition with which they direct their