Logo - Feel The Words

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.

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was...

Quotes by Michael Ende

I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure...

Quotes by Michael Eric Dyson

I sleep 14 hours a day. That helps me get the energy you see on the pitch.

Quotes by Michael Essien

I like watching tennis and basketball, but it's not every day you can watch it on TV. I don't play them, though.

Quotes by Michael Essien

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

Quotes by Michael Clarke Duncan

When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.

Quotes by Michael Clarke Duncan

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

Quotes by Michael Connelly

I really didn't realise until I got back the work that goes into a performance. You're like an athlete - if you haven't been practising things tighten up. I had to do a lot of practice work, but I got...

Quotes by Michael Crawford

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

Quotes by Michael Crichton

Comedy is important! When you're having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.

Quotes by Michael Cudlitz

I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.

Quotes by Michael Cera

It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.

Quotes by Michael Chang

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing...

Quotes by Michael Berryman

Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.

Quotes by Michael Beschloss

You really do live through someone's life when you hear him six hours a day.

Quotes by Michael Beschloss

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.

Quotes by Michael Biehn

I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.

Quotes by Michael Biehn

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Quotes by Michael Birch

If you want to boo, that's your right. Boo. Go ahead. Boo me all day long.

Quotes by Michael Bisping

Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us...

Quotes by Michael Azerrad

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.