Diary Quotes

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. (Pablo Picasso)
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. View quote
Heath Ledger
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
J. M. Barrie
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. View quote
Oscar Wilde
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Heavens, no It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary. View quote
Hillary Clinton
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. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers? View quote
Cassandra Clare
Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death – lunch – death, death, death – afternoon tea – death, death, death – quick shower ...' " (Eddie Izzard)
A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter. View quote
Art Spiegelman
I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour. View quote
Golda Meir
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. View quote
Walter Scott
I would rather have someone read my diary than look at my iPod playlists. View quote
Mindy Kaling
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. View quote
Anthony Doerr
But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud. View quote
Tony Kushner
The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' View quote
Julian Fellowes
When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common. View quote
Claire Tomalin
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous. (Alexandra Fuller)
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity. View quote
Beatrice Webb
I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because its part of my journey. View quote
Delphine Arnault
You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be. View quote
Gregg Easterbrook
A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both. View quote
Lemn Sissay