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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.

He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.

Quotes by Michael Isikoff

I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

Quotes by Michael Grimm

I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.

Quotes by Michael Hastings

When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life,...

Quotes by Michael Hayden

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Quotes by Michael Hayden

I was considered one of RCA's brightest young people. Then one day, I found out we'd been sold. They didn't even consult me.

Quotes by Michael Heisley

Don't plan to drive more than 300 miles a day.

Quotes by Michael Frome

I even went to film school at School of Visual Arts in New York City. And then, after that, I got a day job at Universal publicity department, then moved over to Disney publicity department. So I had this day...

Quotes by Michael Giacchino

I'm not the kind of person who works 24 hours a day, mostly out of laziness; I don't know.

Quotes by Michael Giacchino

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

Quotes by Michael Gove

I think it's time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going...

Quotes by Michael Gove

At the end of the day, we all look in the mirror and tend to see our own self-perceived flaws.

Quotes by Michael Gracey

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

Quotes by Michael Graves

On the first day I got my wheelchair, I was also given all my clothes for the next day, a little pile on the chair. I was so proud of myself for getting it all on - the socks and...

Quotes by Michael Graves

Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into about 10 cups of coffee a day.

Quotes by Michael Greger

A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks.

Quotes by Michael Greger

Sometimes it feels like there aren't enough hours in a day to get everything done.

Quotes by Michael Greger

Walking at a moderate pace for an hour a day is considered a moderately intense level of exercise.

Quotes by Michael Greger

I wake up every day and count blessings.

Quotes by Michael Feinstein

There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.

Quotes by Michael Franti

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.