Journal Quotes - Page 7

• To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in the twentieth century is a remarkable asset, and I spend a day, maybe two days a week in that library. I just plain love it.

  John Shelby Spong

  Two, Library, Archives

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search for human origin.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Reading, Quests, Sacred

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and handed it in to my teacher. She told my mother I was going to be a writer. Since then, I always kept a journal and wrote poetry, plays, stories.

  Renee Watson

  Mother, Teacher, Years

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I can't make something 'useful' to me in a writing sense for a very long time. I don't have any journalistic instinct. And I do keep a journal, but it's neither very revealing nor fruitful for work. Stuff just bubbles up from the swamp later.

  Tim Winton

  Writing, Long, Swamps

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these journals, these memoirs - "Surely our leaders will stop this nonsense. Surely someone will take on these thugs. Surely the pendulum will swing back." Everyone was sitting at home going, "Well, they haven't come for me. This is crazy, but surely someone's going to take care of it." We all have to take care of it.

  Naomi Wolf

  Crazy, Home, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Iraq War is the first war in history, in which there were huge demonstrations before the war was launched, not beginning five years later and then being broken up. All of these are changes, and the people who are writing in journals today lived through these changes.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Writing, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I keep a journal/day planner, which really helps me stay organized and focused.

  Alyssa Milano

  Helping, Help Me, Organized

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The difference between our collective generation and your generation (differentiating the reporters from the students) is that we poured our souls out on paper that got easily yellowed and lost. The danger is that many of your friends (nodding at the students) are putting intimate ideas in cyberspace journals. So when today's 15-year-old is 40, some friend is going to drag out all of that idiotic stuff at their class reunion.

  Paul Saffo

  Years, Class, Ideas

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I had several moms who knew and didn't bring gifts for the baby and instead brought me food, candles, journals - the women who were like, "Actually, I know this is a tough time for you, and it's much more important that I show up here instead of to the baby shower."

  June Diane Raphael

  Mom, Baby, Tough Times

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've never really prided myself as being quick on my feet. Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you think, "Oh, I wish I'd said that!" I tend to journal these things and put the answers in sermons.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Feet, Giving

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Wrestling, Writing, Thinking

  Source: churchleaders.com

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• I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and some interviews with ex-band members. Like [Keith] Richards's book "Life," it's brutally honest.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Sleep, Wife

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• LSD was my "wonder child", we had a positive reaction from everywhere in the world. Around two thousand publications about it appeared in scientific journals and everything was fine. Then, at the beginning of the 1960s, here in the United States, LSD became a drug of abuse. In a short time, this wave of popular use swept the country and it became "drug number one". It was then used without caution and people were not prepared and informed about its deep effects. Instead of a "wonder child", LSD suddenly became my "problem child".

  Albert Hofmann

  Country, Children, Two

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• When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that I hear that I think I can turn into a story. I write about the story that I'm working on and where I think it might go.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• Obamacare is woven into the fabric of health care. It's very hard to just rip it out, as Donald Trump sort of acknowledged with The Wall Street Journal.

  David Brooks

  Wall, Rip, Obamacare

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.

  Ann Voskamp

  Writing, Wrestling, Two

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• If Rudy Giuliani`s offense was that "Wallstreet Journal" did a round table where he openly campaigned for it, and said he didn`t want to be attorney general and that he was better qualified for it, then certainly Senator [Bob] Corker would seem to be, you know, among the best choices.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Choices, Tables, Bob

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The Night Journal received two awards that I'm terribly proud of - -the Spur from Western Writers of America, and the Willa Literary Award from Women Writing the West. Both these groups are filled with great writers and good people.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Writing, Night, Two

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night Journal to my agent she got very excited because she said it reminded her of Angle of Repose.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Book, Night, College

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• I'd be a dope to compare my writing with Wallace Stegner's, but that book probably influenced me in ways I didn't even realize while I was writing The Night Journal.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Book, Writing, Night

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and in some small newspapers, but not in the mainstream press.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wall, Marine, Two

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I don't want to romanticize the world in which everybody watched three networks and the Washington Post and the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were incredibly dominant. That time has passed.

  David Remnick

  New York, Wall, Three

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.

  Carrie Fisher

  Mother, Elevators, Adolescence

  "Q & A : Hollywood Times Three : Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher discuss Hollywood families, not-so-fictional novels--and baby Billie's there to chaperone". Interview with Hilary de Vries, articles.latimes.com. April 24, 1994.

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• What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

  Paul Auster

  Winter, Men, Trying

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas for Transatlantica, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheism, May, Bombay

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