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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.

Fragrance is, to me, something very personal; because it is something you wear every day, it should represent you and be an extension of your style.

Quotes by Frida Gustavsson

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Quotes by Friedrich Engels

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

Quotes by Frederik Pohl

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

Quotes by Fredrik Bajer

It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

Quotes by Freeman A. Hrabowski III

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

Quotes by Freeman Dyson

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

Quotes by Freida Pinto

I never really wear any make-up on my face, like foundation or anything - and I really wouldn't advise that you leave that on your skin at night - but I do often leave on my eye make-up overnight. I...

Quotes by Freja Beha Erichsen

At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes.

Quotes by French Montana

For me, honestly, I would like to play with Messi one day.

Quotes by Frenkie de Jong

Professor Macleod, in his remarks, gave everything that I was going to say and used the pronoun 'we' throughout. The following day, students were talking about the remarkable work of Professor Macleod.

Quotes by Frederick Banting

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

Quotes by Frederick Forsyth

I would like to be out there every day and be that one steady guy that everybody can lean on.

Quotes by Freddie Freeman

I think about my mom every day.

Quotes by Freddie Freeman

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the Internet, I look at what they doing, and then I look at ways to defeat them. I know their mixtapes track-by-track. I know some of...

Quotes by Freddie Gibbs

Every day is a different day in New York; there's always something new going on.

Quotes by Freddie Highmore

I go from day to day and game to game.

Quotes by Freddie Ljungberg

But I'm constantly surprised by the amount of interest in how I look. It's flattering, but a little weird - at the end of the day, I'm a footballer.

Quotes by Freddie Ljungberg

At the end of the day, we still make the things that we make. And we found that the best strategy in this very fluid marketplace is to not be tied into any given platform, but to be able to...

Quotes by Freddie Wong

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.