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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.

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Quotes by George Whitefield

I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he...

Quotes by George Will

The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.

Quotes by George William Norris

I was not a big Allman Brothers fan but I could relate to that because that is what the flavor of the day was at that time - at least it was like that for me.

Quotes by George Thorogood

Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.

Quotes by George Thorogood

Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.

Quotes by George Thorogood

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

Quotes by George Segal

When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it.

Quotes by George Sidney

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined...

Quotes by George Soros

It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy...

Quotes by George Steiner

I was on a picture for four or five days, had an opportunity to be on a set, and the assistant cameraman kept showing me things. One day I climbed the fence, knowing they needed an assistant cameraman. A couple...

Quotes by George Stevens

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

Quotes by George Sand

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the...

Quotes by George Saunders

I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going to their three or four jobs at all hours of the day and night. Annoying!

Quotes by George Saunders

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Quotes by George Osborne

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.

Quotes by George Osborne

Each day in Texas, law enforcement officers keep us safe from dangers we don't have to worry about.

Quotes by George P. Bush

Each day in Texas, heroes risk their lives to protect ours.

Quotes by George P. Bush

I spend much too much time on the Web with e-mail and surfing and reading my key sites, and a whole day can go by, and you wonder, 'What did I do today?'

Quotes by George Packer

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

Quotes by George Pataki

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.