Top 100 The Diaries Quotes
#1. It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time." - Tallulah Bankhead
Debbie Macomber
#2. Mina and I fear to be idle, so we have been over all the diaries again and again. Somehow, although the reality seem greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less.
Bram Stoker
#3. There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis.
Pete Hamill
#4. I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass his previous fiction; sometimes the diaries express this in terms of a dejected judgment that the summit has already been reached.
Philip Kitcher
#5. Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.
George Meredith
#6. Everything she had read in the diaries described a creature whose mind was so broken , so incapable of love in the way she understood those concepts, that any attempt to predict its behavior was an exercise in insanity.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#7. When I moved, I unearthed the diaries I kept for ten years. I sat and went through them and they were a worthless burden to own. People will say it's tragic I threw them out, but I know it isn't.
Bill Callahan
#8. In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work is some of the only documentation of cultures that have since vanished. But Guerra did not want white men to be his protagonists.
Tom Cole
#9. She stopped, and he knew she had caught herself, dismayed a what she had been about to reveal. [Nicole Dubois]
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#10. No matter what you think you can be, when you're forced to stop and look at where you actually are, it's pretty depressing.
Sometimes, there is no escaping the truth
Candace Bushnell
#11. I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.
Thomas Mallon
#12. It was inestimably important for me to look at the lights of Amherst town in the rain, with the wet black tree-skeletons against the limpid streetlights and gray November mist, and then look at the boy beside me and feel all the hurting beauty go flat because he wasn't the right one-not at all.
Sylvia Plath
#13. Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
Barbara Bush
#14. What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.
Eugene O'Neill
#15. A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal.
-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337
Candace Bushnell
#16. Vampires on TV give us an unhealthy body image stereotype too. Do you know how hard you have to work to get a body like those actors on True Blood or The Vampire Diaries? Try doing that when your blood vessels don't work anymore and your muscles are slowly starting to waste away.
Jessica Verday
#17. Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.
Walter Salles
#18. The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.
Helen Fielding
#19. Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to have kept everything from his boyhood diaries to college correspondence to every scrap of paper that came his way on the Supreme Court.
Cliff Sloan
#20. Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him.
Jennifer Connelly
#21. Our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.
Charlotte Moss
#22. And this is how the ending starts.
L.J.Smith
#23. A lot of mistakes, but all of them in the past. Some made with worthy intentions, some without. When you live a long time you get to collect a lot of mistakes.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#24. Diaries are very futile. I must be all dream or all deed. It is quite impossible for me to express any of the beauty I feel to half the degree I feel it; and yet it is a great pleasure to seize an impression and lock it up in words: you feel as if you had it safe forever.
Wallace Stevens
#25. I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.
Steffi Graf
#26. The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.
Tony Benn
#27. I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?
Meg Cabot
#28. When our executive producer, Julie Plec, told me I was going to become a hybrid I got really excited. Because there's a lot of responsibility that comes with that, especially in our world of 'The Vampire Diaries' where Tyler is the first successful hybrid that's made.
Michael Trevino
#29. In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.
Chris Riddell
#30. What is the appropriate reply to make to a man who says he loves you?
Thank you. You are very kind.
Meg Cabot
#32. I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.
Sue Townsend
#33. Their touch triggered an electric spasm of agony. He felt the gushing warmth of blood on his fingers. [Charles Meredith]
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#34. I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary] , and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.
Amber Heard
#35. 'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
Gore Vidal
#36. If not for my diaries, I would swear I had lived only half as long as I have. Long periods of my life seem to have vanished. And now I read the passages and wonder who I was when I wrote them, for I cannot remember the events of my life. There are times I sit and wonder where it all has gone.
Nicholas Sparks
#37. After the success of Buddenbrooks, he married and fathered six children. Yet the surviving diaries tell us of recurrent sexual problems - and of Katia Mann's extremely sympathetic response to them
Philip Kitcher
#38. Damon: "What about me?"
Rebekah: "You have a nice behind.
L.J.Smith
#39. As I'm reading Katherine's historical diaries, every now and then I'll see a question that Katherine asked, like, 'Who is the Infanta?' or 'What is a simoleon?'" "In SimCity, a simoleon is money," Trey interjected.
Rysa Walker
#40. It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore
L.J.Smith
#41. I think, having done 'The Princess Diaries,' it was a fun experience, and it's cool to have made fans that are now into all this music. That movie is still so relevant to our culture. It's always on. It's kind of a rare, nostalgic thing. I get tweets all the time about it.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#42. The show [ Vampire Diaries] knows how to keep people on the edge of their seat, that's for sure.
Steven R. McQueen
#43. () Teeth clenched, she heard herself snarl out words in a voice feral in its savagery (...)
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#44. I don't write diaries and things like that, but I have a fantastic memory. I call that like a magic carpet. I can really concentrate and travel back in the past I don't know how many years from now and evoke that space if I wanted.
Francoise Gilot
#45. I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.
A.A. Milne
#46. 'My Fair Godmother's movie rights sold to the producer who did 'Freaky Friday,' 'Princess Diaries,' and one of my favorite movies - 'Sky High.'
Janette Rallison
#47. Sometimes when you live out here alone, you forget how to treat with people. [Sebastien]
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#48. Girls' weekend with the 'Vampire Diaries' girls has become a big deal! It's our quality time. It's so much fun to unload and not feel guilty complaining or talking about your insecurities or bonding over things that you thought you were on your own about.
Nina Dobrev
#49. Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.
Christopher Hitchens
#50. He did not think he was capable of falling in love who was insane, or paranoid, or confused. So where did that leave him?
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#51. In the ruling, Justice Roberts, who wrote the decision, referred to cell phones as not just phones but, quote, "cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, and diaries," unquote. Plus, he went on, best friends, lovers ...
Peter Sagal
#52. It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.
Ann Beattie
#53. People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.
Neil Sheehan
#54. I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.
Sara Sheridan
#55. Many people felt much closer to their own sex than to what was seen as the literally "opposite" - and alien - sex. In letters and diaries, women often referred to men as "the grosser sex.
Stephanie Coontz
#56. Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.
Sarah Silverman
#57. Smiling doesn't always mean you're happy. Sometimes it simple means that you're a strong person.
L.J.Smith
#58. Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#59. A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries.
Mervyn Levy
#60. You need one of those recap sequences," Trey says. "Like, 'Hi, I'm Kate. Here are a few things you might need to know.'"
Charlayne smiles. "Previously on The Vampire Diaries."
"Or," Ben says, "' The Timeline So Far,' like on Supernatural.
Rysa Walker
#61. At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kept a war diary, later mined for memoirs of the conflict. Few diaries, however, were published in their own right.
Nigel Hamilton
#62. Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
A. N. Wilson
#63. You just think I'm cool, because I have all of the seasons of Vampire Diaries on DVD.
Penelope Douglas
#64. Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after The Princess Diaries. It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.
Anne Hathaway
#65. Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
Kate Bush
#66. I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that ... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.
Miley Cyrus
#67. I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on ... and The Princess Diaries was born!
Meg Cabot
#69. 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.
Gregg Easterbrook
#70. I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary
Last entry Oh whats the point?
Kenneth Williams
#72. These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. They will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book.
Anonymous
#73. A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.
Samuel Johnson
#74. I used to think the worst feeling in the world is losing someone you love. But I was wrong the worst feeling in the world is the moment that you realize you've lost yourself.
L.J.Smith
#75. Yet she felt no horror at what she had witnessed, no nausea. their lives - and their deaths - had not mattered.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#77. I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
#78. You only want everything you don't have
Matt from The vampire diaries
L.J.Smith
#79. But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
Jeffrey Archer
#80. Five years ago I was in love with you so utterly I thought I might go mad from it.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#81. The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.
Anais Nin
#82. A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.
William Soutar
#83. We hate guys who date more than one woman at a time. I've always believed that what's unacceptable in one sex should, by definition, be unacceptable in the other.
Candace Bushnell
#84. My parents were so old-fashioned in their attitude to sex that I would rather get in trouble with the police or at school because at least I would be punished less.
Clive Worth
#85. Experience in itself wasn't enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I'd missed it.
Sarah Manguso
#86. I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.
Anne Hathaway
#87. A few diaries could replace tons of self help books simply because their written in the first person ...
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#89. Book five of Dork Diaries is one of my favorite books it brings my thoughts deep into the book and think if you haven't read it you should you will probably fell just as I fell.
Rachel Renee Russell
#90. Stories are all around us, caught in the throats of the strangers you walk past and scrawled on the pages of locked diaries. They're in love letters that were never sent and between the lines of every conversation ever spoken. Just because your story's not written down doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Jodi Picoult
#91. The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it's an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn't notice you noticed at all.
Lynda Barry
#92. Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we've thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.
Rob Bignell, Editor
#93. It's not as simple as that. There's no change I could make that would stop them recognizing who I am eventually. It's difficult to explain, but they'd know.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#94. I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.
Paul Westerberg
#95. Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records, read our medical records, or translate our international communications.
John Ashcroft
#96. The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or diaries, lest they be subpoenaed by avid special prosecutors.
Christopher Buckley
#98. She did not know how the figure was, but she knew it was damaged too badly to live.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#99. What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.
Simone De Beauvoir
#100. The rush of emotion unbalanced him, his initial outrage eclipsed by an all-consuming grief.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
