Quotes About Diary Of Anne Frank

#1. 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.

Tony Kushner

#2. And I would give my
self to this light just to have my
brother and mother
by each
other's side. I would
swim back to the
ocean
and birth a creature
of acceptance; I would if it let me.
I would give it all away.

A.P. Sweet

#3. I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.

Anne Frank

#4. I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection

Drake

#5. Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.

Mary Gaitskill

#6. I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

Anne Frank

#7. What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?

Anne Frank

#8. [I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

Nelson Mandela

#9. Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

Anne Frank

#10. Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Anne Frank

#11. A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone.

Anne Frank

#12. No one must know that my heart and mind are constantly at war with each other. Up to know reason has always won the battle, but will my emotions get the upper hand? Sometimes I fear they will, but more often I actually hope they do!

Anne Frank

#13. Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

Anne Frank

#14. I don't think my opinions are stupid but other people do, so it's better to keep them to myself.

Anne Frank

#15. People who are religious should be glad, since not everyone is blessed with the ability to believe in a higher order.

Anne Frank

#16. For someone like me,
it is a very strange habit to write in a diary.
Not only that I have never written before,
but it strikes me that later neither I,
nor anyone else,
will care for the outpouring
of a thirteen year old schoolgirl.

Anne Frank

#17. Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.

Dale Ludwig

#18. To enter the maintsteam market is an act of aggression. The companies who have already established relationships with your target customer will resent your intrusion and do everything they can to shut you out.

Geoffrey Moore

#19. I found that it was easier to think up questions than to ask them.

Anne Frank

#20. In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

Daniel H. Pink

#21. The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feeling; otherwise, I might suffocate.

Anne Frank

#22. I hope I'm going to be a little like him, without having to go through what he has!

Anne Frank

#23. The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

Anne Frank

#24. 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

#25. I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!

Al Roker

#26. When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.

Andy Andrews

#27. I know that I can write, a couple of my stories are good, my descriptions of the 'Secret Annex' are humorous, there's a lot in my diary that speaks, but whether I have real talent remains to be seen.

Anne Frank

#28. No, I'm not afraid, except when it comes to things about myself, but I'm working on that.

Anne Frank

#29. In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.

Ai Weiwei

#30. Often we feel the need to say that a book isn't just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit. People say this of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, or Night by Elie Wiesel, or A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.

Will Schwalbe

#31. Paper is more patient than people.

Anne Frank

#32. But I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take ti too seriously.

Anne Frank

#33. Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

Anne Frank

#34. I don't intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it's postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it!

Anne Frank

#35. It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

P.G. Wodehouse