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.

I continue to dream of a day when my skullcap will not stick out so much.

Quotes by Meir Soloveichik

As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest.

Quotes by Meir Soloveichik

A question is a question at the end of the day. It's up to me if I want to answer them.

Quotes by Mel B

I can't speak for every mum but once you have children, I find that I don't really get through the day without grinning about five times!

Quotes by Mel Giedroyc

Every day after school for 10 years, I was on the set of 'Married... with Children,' which is a really funny and perverse place for a little girl in a Catholic school uniform to grow up.

Quotes by Meghan Markle

My God, I think about way back in the day when we were running around in Mary Janes and Doc Martens, that whole 90210-inspired look. I'm glad that's long gone.

Quotes by Meghan Markle

I really try every day. I really try to come into work thinking about what rhetoric I'm going to put out in the world and what my father would've done if he was still here.

Quotes by Meghan McCain

Everyone wants to turn on their TV and have a break from their normal day.

Quotes by Megyn Price

If you can contribute 45 minutes - one hour a day a week exercising, you're going to be a healthy person. You can cut down on diabetes and all of these manmade problems we have. I do embrace the fact...

Quotes by Mehcad Brooks

I think, at the end of the day, it comes down to authenticity and creating what you love.

Quotes by Megan Nicole

People that have known me for a while tell me how they see me grown as an artist and as a writer. I think that this comes with continuing writing each day. I try to write as often as I...

Quotes by Megan Nicole

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.

Quotes by Meg Rosoff

My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later...

Quotes by Meg Wolitzer

My dream of dreams is to write Broadway musicals. All of this Twitter and TV writing is just a day job.

Quotes by Megan Amram

British actors wear wigs a lot. I find it to be a nice ritual at the end of the day, take the wig off, clean the makeup off, go home, leave work behind me.

Quotes by Megan Boone

You're in the gym eight hours a day; you're not preparing for cameras and running around and doing tour stops and making acting appearances.

Quotes by McKayla Maroney

I use bath gloves in the shower every day. People often comment on my skin and I just tell them that I use bath gloves.

Quotes by Meagan Good

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

Quotes by Meat Loaf

My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

Quotes by Meat Loaf

It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day.

Quotes by Medgar Evers

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.