Quotes About Journal Entries

#1. Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.

Gail Collins

#2. My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.

Sarah Silverman

#3. The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

Trent Reznor

#4. She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.

Dave Eggers

#5. These financial statements are compiled using information found in the general ledger, which is, essentially, the collection of all of a business's journal entries.

Mike Piper

#6. Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.

Brigham Young

#7. I don't cook, I can't cook, and it is really abominable to see me in the kitchen. I order in takeaway food or get my friends to cook because a lot of them are very good.

Drew Barrymore

#8. When you build a house
You nail down memories
Paint and stain the fabric of time

Richard L. Ratliff

#9. The young John Quincy Adams begins it lifelong habit of keeping a journal with reluctance that he might one day have to read it. He hopes, though, that the flaws in his earlier entries will be balanced by the progress he is able to see.

Paul C. Nagel

#10. If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.

Wayne W. Dyer

#11. Tonight I write this journal entry on my laptop. Other nights I have handwritten entries in notebooks. Sometimes I jot down notes as I ride home in the cab or wait for an appointment. I want all of this
everything and everyone
to stay with me.

Paula Huntley

#12. It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.

David Gilmour

#13. If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance to humanity. I offer the following conversation as an added entry: "And what is as important as knowledge?" asked the mind. "Caring," answered the heart.

Flavia Weedn

#14. I never got a chance to be a teenager.

Agnes Bruckner

#15. It sure made me feel good to be here today, and have so many people say so many kind things.

Steve Largent

#16. Good books are for consideration after, too.

Stephen King

#17. Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

Bertrand Russell

#18. Nathan reached out to Hunter, Clasping the former assassin's hand in a firm shake. "I understand now," Nathan said. "I didn't know it would be possible to feel-" The massive warrior only nodded. No need for more words.

Lara Adrian

#19. I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.

Garry Marshall

#20. If the world is polluted, we are polluted. If the world dies, we die anyway. I don't pretend to be separate from the world. If she is poisoned, I jump in and be poisoned with her.

J. Gabriel Gates

#21. Drop all your botheration to me and be free of worry

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#22. Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

James W. Sire