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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 is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Quotes by Frank B. Kellogg

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

Quotes by Frank Black

I like going to the gym every day.

Quotes by Frank Bruno

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

Quotes by Francois Truffaut

I never get bored. There isn't enough time in the day for me.

Quotes by Francoise Hardy

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

Quotes by Frank Auerbach

I really want to lift the Champions League trophy one day.

Quotes by Franck Ribery

One day I'll know what it's like to be a manager.

Quotes by Franck Ribery

My son Saif was born here, he may even one day play for Germany.

Quotes by Franck Ribery

I watched 'E.T.' when I was a kid every day. Well, not all of it every day; I'd pause it and start over again. But I've watched 'E.T.' about 400 times in my life.

Quotes by Francois Arnaud

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When...

Quotes by Francois Hollande

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

Quotes by Francois Jacob

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

Quotes by Francine Prose

If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.

Quotes by Francine Prose

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

Quotes by Francis Collins

Anybody plays a good match, you can beat anybody on a given day.

Quotes by Frances Tiafoe

I'm not perfect. But I hold myself to a high standard every day.

Quotes by Frances Tiafoe

I maximize every day.

Quotes by Frances Tiafoe

All these pros are getting better every day. You just want to catch up to them.

Quotes by Frances Tiafoe

Some days, obviously, I am like 'Today is not the day,' but you got to push through, especially when my aspirations are to be pro, you can't have any bad days.

Quotes by Frances Tiafoe

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.