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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.

I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.

Quotes by Freddy Adu

Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.

Quotes by Fred Korematsu

Back in the day, when we'd get into a town, I would go in the phone book and look up record stores. Then I'd take a bus or a cab and check them out.

Quotes by Fred Schneider

I was the King of Twinkie-Vision one day, the King of Jiggle TV the next, thanks to Farrah Fawcett and 'Three's Company.'

Quotes by Fred Silverman

Succeeding in network prime time has gotten tougher. Every day, several thousand homes are wired for cable, and more people are buying videodisks and video cassettes. That all represents competition.

Quotes by Fred Silverman

How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.

Quotes by Fred Brooks

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

Quotes by Fred Brooks

Six months after we started, in 1964, there was a day when we sold only seven sandwiches. If we'd taken all the money from the register, we couldn't have paid an employee, much less the food or the rent or...

Quotes by Fred DeLuca

Everybody eats three times a day; it's only a question of where they choose to eat. The longer-term trends are people eat out more often.

Quotes by Fred DeLuca

As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have...

Quotes by Fred Durst

Everything will be tokenized and connected by a blockchain one day.

Quotes by Fred Ehrsam

At the end of the day, what's going to make bitcoin successful is more people making more interesting things, just like the beginning of the Internet.

Quotes by Fred Ehrsam

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

Quotes by Fred F. Fielding

You worked your paper route, mowed the lawn, then played golf all day.

Quotes by Fred Funk

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Quotes by Franz Grillparzer

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

Quotes by Franz Liszt

The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.

Quotes by Fred Armisen

I am opposed to vacations and leisure. I try to make every day a work day. Even if there's nothing on my schedule, I will try do at least one task that is work-related.

Quotes by Fred Armisen

Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were the big, dominant corporations of the day, and that they would disrupt them and make them...

Quotes by Franklin Foer

There are, in fact, apps you can use to measure how many times you check your phone, and I shudder to think how many times I check my phone. I'm sure it would be probably in the hundreds of times...

Quotes by Franklin Foer

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.