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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've signed a few sneakers in my day.

Quotes by Ja Rule

I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

Quotes by Ja Rule

Because at the end of the day, it's the most important thing that you do well, that you achieve goals that you want to achieve and where you want to go to as a club.

Quotes by Jaap Stam

You want young people to vote, make Election Day a national holiday.

Quotes by Jaboukie Young-White

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

Quotes by Jack Anderson

It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something...

Quotes by Jack Antonoff

You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't...

Quotes by Jack Antonoff

I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.

Quotes by Jack Antonoff

I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

Quotes by J. R. Celski

I'm not naive - I think it's rare in the NBA every day to actually be able to enjoy being around the people you're working with.

Quotes by J. J. Redick

My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.

Quotes by J. J. Watt

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.

Quotes by J. J. Watt

I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.

Quotes by J. J. Watt

When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took...

Quotes by J. K. Simmons

On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up...

Quotes by J. K. Simmons

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

Quotes by J. M. Coetzee

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to...

Quotes by J. M. Coetzee

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Quotes by J. Martin Kohe

I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.

Quotes by J. Michael Straczynski

When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go...

Quotes by J. Michael Straczynski

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.