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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.

When 'Hide Away' first started gaining a bit of momentum, I was visiting at least two radio stations per day - sometimes in different cities - to spread the word about the song. It was a hustle, but so worth...

Quotes by Daya

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

Quotes by Daymond John

I love watching professionals play more than I love sitting there 20 hours a day trying be a pro myself.

Quotes by Deadmau5

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Quotes by Dean Acheson

People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the home front, and sometimes you get a day off to read, and you just want a book that feels complete and that you can get...

Quotes by Dean Bakopoulos

Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote a sequel. And they paid me a boatload of money to go write this thing. And after I wrote it, I read it...

Quotes by Dean Devlin

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

Quotes by Dean Devlin

The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'

Quotes by Dean Devlin

To this day, I'm a slave to CNBC.

Quotes by David Zaslav

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Quotes by Davy Crockett

Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.

Quotes by Davy Crockett

I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.

Quotes by Davy Crockett

It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is, with six months' schooling only, I, David Crockett, find myself the most popular bookmaker of the day, and such is the demand for my works that I...

Quotes by Davy Crockett

Probably the worst pickup line is no pickup line. I mean, at the end of the day, what is the worst that could happen?

Quotes by Dawn Olivieri

Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.

Quotes by Dawn Powell

I wake up every day in a different headspace, so on any given day, my hairstyle will change.

Quotes by Dawn Richard

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

Quotes by David Viscott

I think a lot of guys you see - there seems to be this thing where you can have all the fun in the world, but in the end of the day, there's no one to share it with.

Quotes by David Walton

In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it.

Quotes by David Wells

I love my job. I come every day having a ball.

Quotes by David Stern

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.