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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.

I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.

Quotes by Liz Murray

You can mix and match, depending on your own mood, whether you want your look of the day to be casual, cool, or even punk.

Quotes by Liu Wen

I wash my hair with Pantene every other day unless I have gorgeous hair left over from an event.

Quotes by Liv Tyler

As a parent, my fantasy is to cook every meal, read every story, do everything, and also work all day. I'm overly hard on myself.

Quotes by Liv Tyler

What I love most about Mother's Day is that I am acknowledged and honored for being a mother.

Quotes by Liya Kebede

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

Quotes by Little Richard

I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out...

Quotes by Lisa McMann

I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.

Quotes by Lisa McMann

In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5th with things like bonfires and fireworks... I think that made Halloween seem preferable. The idea of having pumpkins and costumes and parties...

Quotes by Lisa Morton

For eight years, I've served on the Indian Affairs committee, two years as the ranking member. I've been on that committee since Day One. I will stay on the committee for as long as I'm in the Senate because of...

Quotes by Lisa Murkowski

People think that every day we pass monumental legislation. Oftentimes, the most important thing that you have done that day is help a family with a visa.

Quotes by Lisa Murkowski

I write a thousand words a day.

Quotes by Lisa See

No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never shared it with anybody.

Quotes by Lisa Joy

The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all...

Quotes by Lisa Kristine

Ticket sales will get higher the day after roasts.

Quotes by Lisa Lampanelli

I had a planned C-section, and I cried the entire day before I had the baby.

Quotes by Lisa Ling

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is...

Quotes by Lisa Loeb

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

Quotes by Lisa Loeb

I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we all watch movies, don't we? But even though I grew up in Los Angeles, my family was entirely...

Quotes by Lisa Lutz

I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.

Quotes by Lisa Marie Presley

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.