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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 started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.

Quotes by Evan Osnos

Like most markets, Da Jing is most alive just after dawn, when the elementary-school children in their uniforms and bright red kerchiefs set off through narrow streets, marking the start of another frenzied day of commerce.

Quotes by Evan Osnos

I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It's fun. It takes up a lot of...

Quotes by Evan Peters

I don't want to have another baby, but my little sister is adopted, and I was hoping that one day I could do that...There are so many possibilities.

Quotes by Evan Rachel Wood

Anyone who says you can't do anything with short hair is wrong! Every day, my style turns into something new, and there are so many different ways you can wear it.

Quotes by Evan Rachel Wood

I started making videos to post just for my friends to see, and people really liked them. One day, I realized they had a couple thousand views on YouTube - I hadn't even known other people were watching them.

Quotes by Eva Gutowski

My channel is really a positive outlet for people to come every day after school. I make my videos so that people can have something happy to turn to - a positive message. I'm making it okay to talk about...

Quotes by Eva Gutowski

At the end of the day, I say, 'You do you.' You shouldn't be focusing on convincing people what your sexual orientation is.

Quotes by Eva Gutowski

I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a book.

Quotes by Eva Gutowski

I'll talk about my Tony all day long.

Quotes by Eva Longoria

I went to a 'Divas' search because I live in L.A. It continued from there. The final portion was in-ring training. I fell in love with it the first day.

Quotes by Eva Marie

In the morning before all the craziness happens, I make sure to pray, and I'll put aside 10 minutes to meditate. I feel when I do that, I'm able to get through my day a lot better.

Quotes by Eva Marie

Depending on the day, I might be catching a flight, going to show, but no matter what when I wake up I got to get a workout in.

Quotes by Eva Marie

WWE is like, you can't really get a bigger production as far as traveling wise and what they do on a day to day basis.

Quotes by Eva Marie

I'm half Mexican so Mexican food I could just eat every single day.

Quotes by Eva Marie

I try to break a sweat every single day. Whatever that may be, if it's even just going for a walk or a run.

Quotes by Eva Marie

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's...

Quotes by Evan Bayh

Between being governor and part of the Senate, one of the things I did was I held a chair at the business school at my alma mater, Indiana University. And I'd go to lecture the graduates, and I loved that,...

Quotes by Evan Bayh

People are always saying, what use are the retarded, on welfare, using up all our funds, and yet, where else is there every day a greater example of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity than these people?

Quotes by Eunice Kennedy Shriver

As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day; that doesn't mean you should run out and buy one.

Quotes by Euny Hong

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.