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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 would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.

Quotes by Reese Witherspoon

I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very fortunate that my job has a lot of flexibility. I spend a lot of time with the kids,...

Quotes by Reese Witherspoon

Lord knows, every day is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.

Quotes by Reese Witherspoon

When you think about a new platform, what will define it as a long-term success are the ongoing range of games and experiences that come to the platform - not what's available on Day One.

Quotes by Reggie Fils-Aime

I kind of just treat every contest like a normal day.

Quotes by Red Gerard

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

Quotes by Red Smith

I'm going to stick to college radio, like I been started off, like I started off with in the day.

Quotes by Redman

I attended college in Los Angeles and wore black pumps to work every day.

Quotes by Ree Drummond

I'm so boring. My idea of a great day is just to be home with absolutely nothing to do.

Quotes by Ree Drummond

As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so...

Quotes by Rebecca Wells

I try to be healthy. I train three days a week with a trainer. But I do like to eat, clearly. And I do eat dessert every day. If I cut that out, yes, I would lose weight.

Quotes by Rebel Wilson

My legal bond with the A.K.P. may have ended the day I took the presidential oath of office, but my bonds of love have never ended and never will.

Quotes by Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.

Quotes by Red Cloud

One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.

Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon

My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was.

Quotes by Rebecca Mader

I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school,...

Quotes by Rebecca Makkai

At 22, and on my fourth day in New York, I was lucky enough to meet my mentor.

Quotes by Rebecca Serle

During the week,I'm really focused on writing and output. Sunday is a day when I really try not to write at all.

Quotes by Rebecca Stead

Exercise is my relaxation. It's when I have some time to myself. I exercise every day.

Quotes by Rebecca Breeds

I'm not very actorish. I don't play actor 24 hours a day. When the job is done, I go on to be myself, whoever that is.

Quotes by Raymond Burr

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.