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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.

At the end of the day, I have a son.

Quotes by O. T. Genasis

I had to live with the models in one big house for two months, 24 hours a day. Only a few of them actually learned how to sign... I couldn't really communicate with anybody, and I felt isolated.

Quotes by Nyle DiMarco

I put a lot of pressure to keep working. And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day. I'd rather go to the set and work.

Quotes by Noureen DeWulf

I want to thank everybody for every day that I have spent at Valencia CF. It has been an honour and a source of pride for me.

Quotes by Nuno Espirito Santo

Every day, for 1,000 days, I made a video. I never missed a day, not even once. I don't know how I did it.

Quotes by Nuseir Yassin

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

Quotes by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

Quotes by Nwankwo Kanu

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Quotes by Northrop Frye

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

Quotes by Norton Juster

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Norman Mailer

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Quotes by Norman Douglas

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

Quotes by Norman Finkelstein

The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.

Quotes by Norman Foster

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

Quotes by Norah Jones

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

Quotes by Norma Shearer

In 'Uncharted,' we do the scenes the same way you would do a film or television show. The motion capture - the performance-capture process - is what makes such a difference for this franchise. So I don't approach it any...

Quotes by Nolan North

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

Quotes by Nomar Garciaparra

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Quotes by Nora Ephron

When I was 14, I had a job in a cake shop. I got caught by the boss, lying down eating cake, and was sacked on my first day.

Quotes by Noel Fielding

Well, the first day we went through three songs, very basically.

Quotes by Noel Redding

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.