Quotes About Keeping A Notebook

#1. Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader
it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my handwriting
it lives too much and I dislike its life
I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much!

Lionel Trilling

#2. So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct for reality which I sometimes envy but do not possess.

Joan Didion

#3. The charismatic portrait of the modern leadership looks nothing like Fidel Castro. It is a faceless portrait that epitomizes the toughness of Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela's charisma, and the most compassionate heart of Mother Theresa.

Anthony Obi Ogbo

#4. Though my fortune is not large, yet I am in a position to support a beloved being and children at my side.

Anton Chekhov

#5. If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

Jo Coudert

#6. It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

#7. People who keep trying are more likely to succeed than those who give up.

S.A.M. Posey

#8. I rolled my eyes and set my head in my hands, as if it was too much for me, and it almost was.

Gillian Flynn

#9. I'm thrilled to continue the tradition of the spectacular, cinematic, horrifying, exciting and emotional storytelling of 'The Walking Dead.' I'm a huge fan of the comics, and started with the show on the other side of the set, as an avid viewer.

Scott M. Gimple

#10. Things were progressing as expected, which was to say that she had lost control of her life. In

Maggie Osborne

#11. In other words, ideas can become powerful forces, but only to the extent to which they are answers to specific human needs prominent in a given social character.

Erich Fromm

#12. You will be back by then Ellen, wont you? I'm keeping this notebook safe for you because I want to believe you'll read it someday, and you'll know I never stopped hoping you'd come home.

Natasha Mac A'Bhaird

#13. As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

Pliny The Elder

#14. I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.

Lauren Bacall

#15. I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

Wally Lamb

#16. A person is nothing if not the product of the lies he believes about himself.

Bobby Adair

#17. You've got two options: Tap or SNAP !!!

Daniel Bryan

#18. Yes, she's about to embark on a new phase of her life. And yes, my role in her life may change. But as time goes on and our hearts grow more rings, we don't have to leave anyone behind. We can hold on to each other, and collect new hearts to hold, from this day forward, as long as we all shall live.

Lisa Scottoline