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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.

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

Quotes by Ted Shackelford

As an officer in the U.S. Air Force, one day I may be called to give my life for my country.

Quotes by Ted Lieu

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

Quotes by Ted Cruz

In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and...

Quotes by Ted Deutch

At the end of the day, I want to have an opportunity to play quarterback in the NFL.

Quotes by Taysom Hill

At the end of the day, I know me, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to win.

Quotes by Taysom Hill

When I was young, I would try to give the right answers. 'I'm going to try to slide.' But at the end of the day, I finally realized that I am going to do whatever it takes. I'm going to...

Quotes by Taysom Hill

At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.

Quotes by Tea Obreht

There are 500 million tweets a day, and there are only a handful throughout the day that are relevant at a particular moment. We need to deliver those messages at the right time with the right analytics.

Quotes by Ted Bailey

Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.

Quotes by Ted Bell

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

Quotes by Ted Bell

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

Quotes by Ted Bell

I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the...

Quotes by Ted Bell

I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.

Quotes by Ted Chiang

The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

Quotes by Taylor Lautner

I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was...

Quotes by Taylor Lautner

At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat...

Quotes by Taylor Lautner

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace...

Quotes by Taylor Mali

I personally won't have anything live in my house that can't move the car on street-sweeping day or grate carrots. Plus, I don't mind being talked to harshly. I want to be challenged by something more complex than a Wheaton...

Quotes by Taylor Negron

I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.

Quotes by Taylor Negron

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.