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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.

It's all about having a product that you're proud of and coming to work every day. Those basic building blocks are the same in any business.

Quotes by Greg Brenneman

Usually for cartoons, I record them in the mornings from 9 A.M. to noon, then I have the rest of the day to do on camera. It actually gives me time to work on my own projects.

Quotes by Greg Cipes

One day I woke up, had an early mid-life crisis, and decided it all had to change. I went and did Logan Murray's comedy course for 11 weeks and then started sneakily doing open-spot gigs, and that was it.

Quotes by Greg Davies

One billion people in 175 countries will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn't it?

Quotes by Greg Dworkin

When I was younger, even though I had a big brother, my parents would give me the house key every day.

Quotes by Granit Xhaka

Everyone fights for everyone else. If someone has a bad day, then the others are there for him. And if a player makes a mistake, then the others can compensate for that. Those sorts of things are crucial at this...

Quotes by Granit Xhaka

He's not a coach who speaks to you every day. Wenger has spoken to me two or three times. He's told me he's very impressed by how I train and how I'm a disciplined character.

Quotes by Granit Xhaka

The most luxurious thing to me is having an hour of my day, which rarely happens, to listen to my iPod and sit on my couch. That's how I unwind.

Quotes by Grant Achatz

We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

Quotes by Grant Achatz

At home, we live on the beach, and it's like every day is a date.

Quotes by Grant Show

I go up to my office and sit down in front of my computer and turn on the internet and then I don't work - that's the end of work for the day.

Quotes by Graham Linehan

Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.

Quotes by Graham Moore

I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.

Quotes by Graham Moore

Britain in 1939 and 1940 really thought they were going to lose the war. It looked like they were going to lose. There was bombing every day, and people were literally starving.

Quotes by Graham Moore

My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to...

Quotes by Graham Norton

If you'd told the young Graham Norton that I'd one day have this amount of money, I'd have assumed it would have come from a lottery win.

Quotes by Graham Norton

I write every day.

Quotes by Graham Russell

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

Quotes by Graham Taylor

I've been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.

Quotes by Gracie Gold

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

Quotes by Graeme Base

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.