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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.

In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in...

Quotes by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

I grew up in Gillingham in Kent, and my dad commuted to Victoria Station every day. I remember travelling in with him one day and the noise, the people, and the heat leaving me wide-eyed and grinning.

Quotes by Douglas Hodge

Life is unpredictable and you need to live every day to the fullest.

Quotes by Doug Hutchison

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

Quotes by Doug Larson

A page a day means I need to focus on a gag a day, and that's great for laughs but bad for plot, and I'm primarily a plot guy.

Quotes by Doug TenNapel

Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs.

Quotes by Douglas Alexander

To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.

Quotes by Dorothy McGuire

The crew members for 'The Price Is Right' at night are the same guys who work 'Y&R' during the day. It's even in the same studio. I've been in the place for 15 years. So all the faces at 'The...

Quotes by Doug Davidson

The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.

Quotes by Doug Flutie

I'd be more than happy to be thrown underneath the bus for my brother any day.

Quotes by Doug Ford

In politics, you're like a toilet seat: you're up one day and down the next.

Quotes by Doug Ford

I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.

Quotes by Dorothy Allison

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Quotes by Dorothy Day

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

Quotes by Dorothy Dix

Police officers, firefighters, EMTs - they are all out there every single day - literally just a phone call away for anyone who needs them.

Quotes by Doreen Cronin

It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh,...

Quotes by Doris Lessing

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Quotes by Dorothea Brande

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.

Quotes by Donna Rice

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

Quotes by Donna Rice

The most fun part of my day is when I get to play with my lasers.

Quotes by Donna Strickland

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.