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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.

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.

Quotes by T. V. Carpio

At the end of the day, it's show business: you earn money to make money.

Quotes by Taapsee Pannu

I want to be a star. It doesn't mean that I'll act any less. My performance will be at par, but I want to be a star. I want the audience to spend their hard-earned money on my tickets without...

Quotes by Taapsee Pannu

I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

Quotes by T. C. Boyle

Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.

Quotes by T. C. Boyle

I worked out six hours a day, six days a week, to get 16 pounds of extra muscle.

Quotes by Sylvia Hoeks

Walmart is committed to fighting hunger in America every day.

Quotes by Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

Quotes by Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Quotes by Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings and help them build reserves for a rainy day.

Quotes by Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

Quotes by SZA

I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.

Quotes by SZA

I build my characters from the day they're born to the first page of the script.

Quotes by Sydney Sweeney

I'd love to have a production company one day, and I'd love to maybe venture out with other industries.

Quotes by Sydney Sweeney

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.

Quotes by Sylvia Browne

I spend a lot of time on social media, I'm on Facebook every day; I'm on Twitter every day.

Quotes by Sylvia Day

I have thought for a long time that one day, if I finally got to deserve it, I would love to write about the minds of invertebrates.

Quotes by Sy Montgomery

I sing every day, on a regular basis.

Quotes by Syd

When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will...

Quotes by Sydney Madwed

When I came to Mumbai, I didn't know a soul. The only person I knew was an assistant director, which, everyone agrees, is the lowest form of life on the set. So, it was not a great contact to have....

Quotes by Swara Bhaskar

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.