Haley Pullos Quotes

I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It really helps to clear my head.

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• I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Stuff
  • Maintain
  • Journal

• When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Trying
  • Down
  • Journal

• I'm a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on the walls, and I would change what I was wearing, and I would have a playlist, and it all kind of corresponded and matched, and I would change my handwriting in the journals.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Change
  • New
  • Journal

• Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Passion
  • Criticism
  • Poems

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

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Why
  • Journal
  • Diaries

• I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Alone

• For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Writing
  • Pleasure
  • Gratitude

• Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Teacher

• I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Hope
  • Leave
  • Poems

• The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

  

  Plato
  • Poems
  • Fortunes
  • Second Love

• I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

  

  Socrates
  • Knowledge
  • Inspiration
  • Talent

• Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Good
  • Get
  • Poems

• We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

  

  William Boyd
  • Individual
  • Form
  • Journal

• It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Hope
  • Poems
  • Ambitions

• I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Poems
  • Beethoven

• I always loved writing, but I feel like I really started writing when I got my BlackBerry . It was the first time I could take these crazy thoughts in my head and actually get them out. This little device became my journal on the road.

  

  Duff McKagan Guns N' Roses
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Journal

• I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Good
  • Poems
  • Invented

• 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
  • Lines
  • Hunting

• Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Earth
  • Books
  • Dead

• I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

  

  Francis Chan
  • Action
  • Worship
  • Obligation

• There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • World
  • Transformation
  • Four

• I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It really helps to clear my head.

  

  Haley Pullos
  • Poems
  • Journal