Journal Quotes - Page 8

• If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Children, Reading, Writing

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• 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

  Order, Diaries, Problem

  Ann Beattie (2011). “Picturing Will”, p.237, Vintage

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• Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.

  Clay Shirky

  Years, Erotic, Sacred

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• The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.

  Avro Manhattan

  Wall, Catholic, Church

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• The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

  Horace Greeley

  Important, Use, Mankind

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• My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Databases, Medical

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• Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Life Changing, People, Interesting

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• Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Years, Two, Archives

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• Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

  Noel Fisher

  Ocean, Secret, Padlocks

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• Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.

  Amelia Gray

  Writing, People, Want

  "Deus ex McFlurry: An Interview with Amelia Gray". Interview with Blake Butler, htmlgiant.com. November 29, 2010.

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• 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

  Notebook, Looks, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A prominent mention in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago garnered me a whopping 40 visitors.

  Steve Rubel

  Wall, Couple, Visitors

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• Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

  Horace Mann

  Excellence, Records, Biographies

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.105

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• Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

  Paul Bley

  Writing, Play, Piano

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• To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

  Sara Sheridan

  Reading, Hunting, Years

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• The second edition of There Is a Cure for Diabetes is groundbreaking. Dr. Gabriel Cousens gets impressive results that speak for themselves. He is reducing and even eliminating the need for medication, rated by The Journal of the American Medical Association as the fourth leading cause of death in people with diabetes. This well-documented book is all the more important and a better alternative.

  Terry Shintani

  Book, People, Important

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• The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.

  Yuri Milner

  Wall, Usa, Important

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• The Democratic Party's problem is that voters don't believe the president's claims that the economy is thriving. Even people with jobs feel apprehensive. Paychecks are flat, growth anemic, and people are worried about their children's prospects. Mr. Obama had a 38% approval on handling the economy in the Sept. 9 Fox News poll. In the Sept. 7 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 67% believe America is on the wrong track.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Children, Wall

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• Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Change, Art, Records

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.67, 谷月社

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• I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Together, Might, Separation

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.4, David M Gross

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• I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later.

  Cameron Diaz

  Fun, Reading, Home

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• I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

  A. A. Milne

  Diaries, Reason Why, Happens

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Not That it Matters”, p.71, The Floating Press

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• Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Diaries, Graves

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, North Atlantic Books

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• I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Diaries, Boring

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• Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Diaries, Honest

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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