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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 father worked with a first-grade education in this country and managed every single day without a hiccup.

Quotes by Tony Cardenas

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

Quotes by Toni Braxton

Everyone is always super open to helping me even when I bug them every day for a couple of weeks!

Quotes by Toni Garrn

I think Instagram made me more aware that there's actually people that care about what we do, and that we have fans. So that kind of showed me that maybe the people that follow me every day, and are commenting...

Quotes by Toni Garrn

I love to work out and then eat a tonne the whole day.

Quotes by Toni Garrn

I was uncomfortable with that kind of fame when you're in the tabloids every day.

Quotes by Toni Tennille

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Quotes by Tommy Rettig

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.

Quotes by Tommy Shaw

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

Quotes by Tommy Shaw

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.

Quotes by Tommy Lee

I remember talking to Magic the day I announced I had HIV. He was preaching, 'Do what your doctor tells you.' Well, I didn't have a doctor then, so I got down on my knees, and I prayed.

Quotes by Tommy Morrison

The knowledge and insights you can get in just one day at a writers' conference make it worth the trip.

Quotes by Tomi Adeyemi

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.

Quotes by Tommy Chong

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

Quotes by Tommy Chong

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Quotes by Tom Wilson

If we had a perfect world, we can do 'Scandal' during the day and 'Murder' at night - that's the optimal thing.

Quotes by Tom Verica

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our...

Quotes by Tom Vilsack

There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

Quotes by Tom Vilsack

Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start to get that edgy thing, I get kind of mean.

Quotes by Tom Smothers

You don't watch television shows to see people having an easy day. You watch to see them make some of the hardest decisions they have to make. It's enjoyable to see them dealing with those important parts of their lives.

Quotes by Tom Stevens

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.