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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 first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.

Quotes by Diplo

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

Quotes by Dimebag Darrell

To me, Valentine's Day is not merely limited to a lover but speaks of universal love.

Quotes by Dimple Kapadia

I'm an ice cream lover, but anytime it's show day, I have to cancel out all dairy because it isn't good for vocalists.

Quotes by Dinah Jane

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Quotes by Dinah Maria Mulock

On Conte's first day, I told him that I wanted to join Atletico, and he was upset with me and didn't even look at me. Luckily, I started to score goals.

Quotes by Diego Costa

Football is very changeable, particularly at international level when you're not working together every day.

Quotes by Diego Godin

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

Quotes by Diego Luna

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one day to make a story that's an hour and a half. So you can see the...

Quotes by Diego Luna

I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team.

Quotes by Diego Maradona

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

Quotes by Diego Rivera

But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different...

Quotes by Dierks Bentley

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

Quotes by Dierks Bentley

Every day, the sun comes out and the sky's always blue. That's what I miss about Denver.

Quotes by Dikembe Mutombo

My favorite memory is my five years with the Nuggets. From my first day to my last day is a great memory. There wasn't a year that I was a Nugget that I didn't think we succeeded.

Quotes by Dikembe Mutombo

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

Quotes by Dikembe Mutombo

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

Quotes by Dikembe Mutombo

There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.

Quotes by Dikembe Mutombo

I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.

Quotes by Dick Van Dyke

I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all...

Quotes by Dick Van Dyke

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.