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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.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

Quotes by George Allen, Sr.

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.

Quotes by George Allen, Sr.

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

Quotes by Geoffrey Holder

I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.

Quotes by Geoffrey Rush

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Quotes by Geoffrey S. Fletcher

The Lamb's Club is going to be a luxury bar and grill; we're not doing an overly fancy restaurant. We wanted to make a space that people will come to every day, almost like a very high-end bistro.

Quotes by Geoffrey Zakarian

I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a sense of closure before I go to bed.

Quotes by Geoffrey Zakarian

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

Quotes by Georg Brandes

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people...

Quotes by Georg Brandes

I never went into the mine. But I saw my father and other men coming out, day after day, their faces and bodies covered in soot. It looked very hard and dangerous.

Quotes by Gennady Golovkin

The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.

Quotes by Geoff Davis

We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later.

Quotes by Geoff Downes

Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over...

Quotes by Geoff Downes

We are finding new areas in the ocean every day. It's as alien as going to outer space.

Quotes by Geoff Johns

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.

Quotes by Geoff Johns

You don't want to jump in on your first day on a show and start improv-ing and changing the show.

Quotes by Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Quotes by Geoff Stults

Since I had cancer I've realised that every day is a bonus.

Quotes by Geoffrey Boycott

There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.

Quotes by Geoffrey Canada

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

Quotes by Geoffrey Canada

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.