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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.

Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.

Quotes by Henning Mankell

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

Quotes by Helen Reddy

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

Quotes by Helen Reddy

I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.

Quotes by Helen Thomas

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.

Quotes by Helen Thomas

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.

Quotes by Helen Thomas

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

Quotes by Helena Blavatsky

When I want to explain why empowering girls and women is critical to fighting poverty, I often tell a person's story. It's easier to relate to a personal story than to global data telling us that the majority of the...

Quotes by Helene D. Gayle

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much...

Quotes by Helen Fielding

When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.

Quotes by Helen Fisher

I'm not sure filming a birth is as hard as actual labour, but it's a really long, arduous day!

Quotes by Helen George

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

Quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson

The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd written 150 pages when I'd only written 20. And I think it was when the agent e-mailed me...

Quotes by Helen Oyeyemi

I put working out on my calendar as if it were a part of my job. It makes exercise as important a priority as brushing my teeth - something I need to do every day.

Quotes by Heidi Roizen

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

Quotes by Heinrich Boll

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Quotes by Heinrich Heine

As a professional athlete you have to be technical with what you eat. You have to make sure your intakes are on point every day.

Quotes by Hector Bellerin

Some of my team-mates in the Under-18s used to play 'Call of Duty' and they told me I should jump on it. I have played it ever since, for my first one or two years I played it pretty much...

Quotes by Hector Bellerin

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

Quotes by Hedi Slimane

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

Quotes by Heidi Klum

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.