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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.

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

Quotes by William P. Leahy

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Quotes by William Moulton Marston

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Quotes by William Law

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

Quotes by William Levy

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.

Quotes by William Kircher

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

Quotes by William Kunstler

Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

Quotes by William Joyce

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

Quotes by William Jennings Bryan

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Quotes by William John Wills

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

Quotes by William Ivey Long

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

Quotes by William J. Clinton

As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment.

Quotes by William Henry Ashley

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.

Quotes by William Henry Ashley

The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.

Quotes by William Henry Ashley

I will never forget January 22, 1973, the day seven members of our highest court ripped up the Constitution.

Quotes by William H. Pryor

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

Quotes by William Hague

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

Quotes by William Hazlitt

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily...

Quotes by William Griffith Wilson

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

Quotes by William H. Macy

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

Quotes by William Goldman

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.