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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.

My day starts at 5 A.M. and gets over at 10:30 P.M. Its a long day but I love it... I can't sit idle.

Quotes by Esha Gupta

There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lot you can do in a day!

Quotes by Esperanza Spalding

I train hard every day, I don't know what the word 'impossible' means.

Quotes by Essam El Hadary

I train hard, every day, not because it's my job but because I love football.

Quotes by Essam El Hadary

With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.

Quotes by Estelle

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

Quotes by Estelle Morris

Since I was 18, I have swum for 50 minutes every day, missing less than one day a year except for a two-week stint when I was training as a cosmonaut in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in March 2009.

Quotes by Esther Dyson

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality,...

Quotes by Ernst Toller

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

Quotes by Esa-Pekka Salonen

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

Quotes by Ernest Istook

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

Quotes by Ernest Lawrence

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

Quotes by Ernest Lawrence

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

Quotes by Ernest Mandel

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Quotes by Ernest Newman

I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis...

Quotes by Ernest Shackleton

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

Quotes by Ernie Banks

Mondays are a good day to make statements, not Friday.

Quotes by Ernie Els

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have...

Quotes by Eriq La Salle

To this day I clean better than most maids.

Quotes by Ernest Borgnine

In a zombie apocalypse movie, nobody's ever seen a zombie movie. Or in an alien invasion movie, nobody has ever seen an alien invasion movie, like 'Independence Day.'

Quotes by Ernest Cline

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.