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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.

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

Quotes by Chris Bell

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words...

Quotes by Chris Bohjalian

On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.

Quotes by Chris Bohjalian

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

Quotes by Chris Bohjalian

I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.

Quotes by Chris Bohjalian

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Quotes by Chinua Achebe

Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to...

Quotes by Chip Gaines

It probably would be wiser, from a time-management standpoint, if I hired a crew to take care of the farm so I could get a little more rest. But the thing is, when I start my morning out there, I'm...

Quotes by Chip Gaines

I'd have to say that the things that mean the most to me are the examples of original comic art that I'm able to look at every day, most of them either by notable friends and/or for projects that I've...

Quotes by Chip Kidd

I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying...

Quotes by Chirlane McCray

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey,...

Quotes by Chiwetel Ejiofor

It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which one will be our last.

Quotes by Chloe Benjamin

I know everyone thinks Dad is a little bit crazy with his training, because we train a lot harder and do more kilometres and stuff than most pentathletes. Training is full-on. It's seven or eight hours a day.

Quotes by Chloe Esposito

I did about 50 pull-ups and 1,000 crunches a day. Crazy.

Quotes by Chloe Grace Moretz

No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.

Quotes by Chloe Grace Moretz

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

Quotes by Chloe Grace Moretz

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

Quotes by Chloe Grace Moretz

I grew up in Southern California. If it's snowing on a day I'm supposed to train, I'll just stare out the window in all my gear and be like, 'Hmmm, maybe not today.' I hate being cold.

Quotes by Chloe Kim

I will never forget the day David Bowie passed away. I will actually never forget that day because I woke up in the middle of the night and it was the first thing on my phone. I had to lay...

Quotes by Chloe Kohanski

I can sing other people's songs all day, but I'm ready for it to be my song.

Quotes by Chloe Kohanski

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.