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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.

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

Quotes by Stijn Streuvels

My day job keeps me grounded. When I show up to work, I'm not some star fighter or anything, I'm just Stipe. I'm going to keep working in my hometown as long as I can.

Quotes by Stipe Miocic

At the end of the day, it's a fight, and anything can happen.

Quotes by Stipe Miocic

Someone sent me a picture of Werdum on the ground after I hit him... There was 2:16 left, and the area code for Cleveland is 216. They played 'Believeland' that night, and the next day it snowed, and everyone said...

Quotes by Stipe Miocic

At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are.

Quotes by Steven Yeun

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.

Quotes by Stevie Nicks

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

Quotes by Stevie Nicks

It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.

Quotes by Stevie Nicks

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

Quotes by Stevie Wonder

I always feel great. I get to come to work every day and see the build from the night before, and every day we do more stuff.

Quotes by Steven Sinofsky

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

Quotes by Steven Spielberg

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

Quotes by Steven Squyres

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

Quotes by Steven Van Zandt

I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from...

Quotes by Steven Van Zandt

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

Quotes by Steven Seagal

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.

Quotes by Steven R. McQueen

Sometimes in Washington you get a little disconnected. I want to make sure I know what people are actually doing each day.

Quotes by Steven Horsford

Our chips keep getting faster, and our data rates keep climbing, but at the end of the day - or worse, by mid-afternoon - those power meters on our screens inevitably turn to red.

Quotes by Steven Levy

At the end of the day, when I kick back with some barbecue and a CokeZero in front of a blockbuster film playing within the convenience of my fully air-conditioned house, I'll say a small prayer thanking God for the...

Quotes by Steven Crowder

Your wedding can be the most memorable day and night of your life... or just another party.

Quotes by Steven Crowder

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.