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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.

You never want to plateau out. Getting better every day is my expectation.

Quotes by Jeffrey Lurie

I've always been active in working out and taking care of myself. I've been running two miles a day since I was 18.

Quotes by Jeffrey Osborne

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that.

Quotes by Jeffrey R. Immelt

It's a real concern of mine every day. What can we do? How much can we do? How quickly can we address all these important things?

Quotes by Jeffrey Skoll

The goal of Participant is to tell stories that serve as catalysts for social change. With our television channel, we can bring those stories into the homes of our viewers every day.

Quotes by Jeffrey Skoll

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just...

Quotes by Jeffrey Wright

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then...

Quotes by Jeffrey Archer

Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that moment. 'The Avengers' had all of this great, giant action, but for all of the clever dialogue, it's the moments.

Quotes by Jeffrey Bell

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

Quotes by Jeffrey Bernard

In my day, you could get a faculty job with zero post-doc papers, as in the case of yours truly; but now, the CV of a successful applicant looks like that of a newly minted full professor from olden times.

Quotes by Jeffrey C. Hall

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

Quotes by Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I feel like every day I'm exceedingly lucky.

Quotes by Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

Quotes by Jeffrey Deitch

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

Quotes by Jeffrey Deitch

The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Quotes by Jeff Rich

If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

Quotes by Jeff Rich

Every day, lax sentencing costs lives.

Quotes by Jeff Sessions

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

Quotes by Jeff Zucker

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Quotes by Jefferson Davis

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

Quotes by Jefferson Davis

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.