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Definition of Diary

Diary

A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.

lasting for one day; as, a diary fever.

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Diary Quotations

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
Mae West

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
Mae West

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift

A diary means yes indeed.
Gertrude Stein

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
Henny Youngman

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Franz Kafka

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
James M. Barrie

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
Steven Morrissey

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Walter Scott

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
Edvard Munch

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
Robert Falcon Scott

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.
John Irving

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.
Robert Musil

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
Lenny Kravitz

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
Francois Truffaut

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.
Cathy Guisewite

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
David Rockefeller

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.
Heath Ledger

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.
Guillermo del Toro

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.
Mary MacLane

As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy... the diary is pretty full.
Evelyn Glennie

I've kept a diary since I was 11.
Evelyn Glennie

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.
Justin Hayward

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
Liza Minnelli

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

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
Hans Frank

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Diary Translations

diary in Dutch is dagboek, journaal
diary in French is semainier, carnet
diary in German is Terminkalender, Tagebuch
diary in Italian is diario, taccuino
diary in Norwegian is dagbok
diary in Spanish is agenda, vademecum
diary in Swedish is dagbok

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