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Day Quotes

Lines on routine, duty and the shape of an ordinary day.

These quotes span a wide range of daily experience: actors describing the grind of read-throughs and reshoots, and reflections on the discipline service members carry with them off duty as well as on. For more on the rhythm of daily life, see our Day-To-Day Life quotes.

I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.

Quotes by Richard Simmons

One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, 'Farewell to Fat'.

Quotes by Richard Simmons

Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

Quotes by Richard Simmons

We really owe it to the military for what they do day in and day out that we never even hear about.

Quotes by Richard Phillips

Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.

Quotes by Richard Pound

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.

Quotes by Richard Price

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

Quotes by Richard Pryor

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

Quotes by Richard Pryor

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

Quotes by Richard Pryor

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

Quotes by Richard Quest

Everyday has its challenges - keeping up with the business, and we are a real business, unlike a lot of the reality shows. We build all the cars. It has its challenges, but at the end of the day, it’s...

Quotes by Richard Rawlings

I used to have a five-year plan when I was younger. But that’s changed. Technology is changing every day. So you have to live in the day. You have to see what the opportunities are, and go for them.

Quotes by Richard Rawlings

Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.

Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

Quotes by Richard Petty

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people,...

Quotes by Richard Neal

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

Quotes by Richard Lugar

It's nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I'm just an actor and I'm doing my job and I'm always trying to get better at doing that job.

Quotes by Richard Madden

I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

Quotes by Richard Marx

I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal.

Quotes by Richard Matheson

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the theme connecting the quotes on this Day page?
The quotes gathered here touch on daily life and routine from different angles - one speaker reflects on being held accountable "twenty-four hours a day," and another describes the routine of a scene-by-scene read-through happening the day before filming, giving the page a loose, everyday-life throughline. For quotes centered specifically on daily routines, see Day-To-Day Life.
Do these quotes come from a specific field or background?
They span a few different worlds - one is a personal reflection on skin and diet changes since college, another discusses accountability among those serving in Iraq, and two more describe the day-to-day realities of working on film and TV sets.
Is there a quote here about filmmaking routines specifically?
Yes, one entry describes not having "the luxury of rehearsal time on most films," explaining that a scene-by-scene read-through often happens just before shooting rather than well in advance.
What about quotes touching on imagination or escaping routine?
This page focuses more on grounded daily-life reflections, so if you're looking for quotes about mentally drifting away from the day-to-day, Daydream quotes might be a better fit.
How is this different from the Daybreak or Daylight pages?
This page's quotes are reflections tied to daily routine and experience in general, rather than the specific moment of morning or sunrise - for that, Daybreak and Daylight are the more focused pages.

Other related pages include our Daybreak quotes for morning-themed lines and Daydream quotes for something more imaginative.