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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.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Quotes by Paul Auster

I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

Quotes by Paul Auster

For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the...

Quotes by Paul Bettany

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

Quotes by Patti Smith

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.

Quotes by Patti Smith

It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.

Quotes by Patty Berg

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list...

Quotes by Patty Griffin

It's been my experience with damaged people: they don't wake up every day and wallow in the bad things that have happened to them.

Quotes by Patty Jenkins

When I'm on a movie, I'm unavailable every day for a year and a half. You can't do that with a little baby. Somebody might be able to do it, but not me.

Quotes by Patty Jenkins

We're in conversations with brands worldwide for a variety of artists every day.

Quotes by Patrick Whitesell

I am scared every day.

Quotes by Patrisse Cullors

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

Quotes by Patti Davis

At the end of the day, all I can do is control me and what comes out of my mouth.

Quotes by Patrick Reed

He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.

Quotes by Patrick Roy

I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.

Quotes by Patrick Soon-Shiong

You have in the U.S. around two million new diagnoses of cancer a year, and 13 million survivors, so you have about 10,000 patients that require analysis every day. That's about five petabytes that need to be transmitted and computed...

Quotes by Patrick Soon-Shiong

You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their...

Quotes by Patrick Soon-Shiong

When you are 14, 15, 16, you can train every day in France, and sometimes you can train twice a day.

Quotes by Patrick Vieira

No one really sees pro athletes behind the scenes. They don't know how hard they work. They don't see how you work on the basics. They couldn't possibly know. You wouldn't think that someone who hits like Alex Rodriguez needs...

Quotes by Patrick Mahomes

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse...

Quotes by Patrick McGoohan

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.