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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.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Quotes by Richard Cecil

In my opinion, the best of the knockout cookery series is 'MasterChef', which I have watched since Loyd Grossman's day, back in the 1990s.

Quotes by Richard Coles

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: 'Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened' is one of the funniest lines in any film.

Quotes by Richard Ayoade

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.

Quotes by Richard Barnfield

Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.

Quotes by Richard Bausch

To be able to work for 20 years as an actor in an industry that is not so predictable, I'm grateful every day. I'll do it till I drop, I guess - or drop out.

Quotes by Richard Belzer

This book-promotion stuff is like a political campaign. You work your butt off, and at the end of the day, you can't tell if it's made a damned bit of difference.

Quotes by Richard Ben Cramer

I remember the N64 coming out. That was a beautiful day.

Quotes by Rich Moore

Arcade-game characters have no free will. They're programmed to do one thing day in and day out - they don't have a choice in the matter.

Quotes by Rich Moore

I usually listen to my body and train the body parts that I feel are strong for that particular day.

Quotes by Rich Piana

I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.

Quotes by Richard Armitage

You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.

Quotes by Richard Attenborough

One day, I was just thinking about something, and then - you know when you think, and you have that inner voice in your head? I realized it was in English.

Quotes by Rich Brian

My dad is constantly looking up my name on Twitter, every single day. He made a Twitter account just for that.

Quotes by Rich Brian

When my family got Internet installed at my house, me and my siblings went crazy and would take turns browsing. I'm homeschooled, too, so I would be on the computer every day. It was so exciting to finally get Internet...

Quotes by Rich Brian

When I say 'homeschooled,' I was homeschooled for, like, two years, and then we just stopped. It was me and my parents, and they'd give me homework and stuff like that, but then one day, they just stopped.

Quotes by Rich Brian

My main goal was to be a cinematographer. I was making short films, and the plan was to keep uploading them on Twitter and build a fanbase there. One day, I just started making music for fun. When I made...

Quotes by Rich Brian

Wednesday is always a ramp-up day during Super Bowl week. This is the day that players who didn't make the big game always appear or arrive in the Super Bowl city to hawk their wares or promote a sponsor, so...

Quotes by Rich Eisen

The Tuesday before the Super Bowl is all about the media. Well, to be honest, every day at the Super Bowl is about the media, but Tuesday of Super Bowl week is specifically called Media Day.

Quotes by Rich Eisen

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.