Quotes of Journal - somelinesforyou

“ Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so it is with autobiography. ”

- Hilaire Belloc

“ Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. ”

- Mae West

“ Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I've been on a calendar, but never on time. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible. ”

- John Grigg

“ When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it. ”

- Paul Murray Kendall

“ I can't say I knew very much about the magazine,... I've had lots of telephone interviews with magazines... I don't have to agree with their views. ”

- John Ashcroft

“ I love the tabloids except for when I'm in 'em. ”

- Johnny Knoxville

“ The current tax code is a daily mugging. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Television is a daily menace to housework, and a nightly menace to homework. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Many a man who thinks he is thinking, is merely digesting yesterday's newspaper. ”

- Evan Esar

“ I felt the function of a photograph was to have it seen by as many people as possible and the newspaper is one of the best ways or the magazine. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ These magazines that focus on our age difference - I just don't get it. ”

- Ashton Kutcher

“ A man of one book. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! ”

- Bible

“ Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ”

- John Osborne

“ Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual. ”

- Unknown

“ Shakespeare: The Biography. ”

- Peter Ackroyd

“ We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ There is nothing in those logs at all about chemical contamination of my troops. ”

- Norman Schwarzkopf

“ I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

“ It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do. ”

- Kingman Brewster

“ Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. ”

- Stephen Ambrose
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