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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.

The Ohio Legislature's passed a law to allow concealed weapons in day care centers, but interesting: this same Legislature, in its wisdom, doesn't allow concealed weapons in the statehouse.

Quotes by Sherrod Brown

When I say they're lunatics, that's what I'm talking about. People that think you should allow guns in day care centers, but they're protecting themselves by not allowing guns in their workplace, that would be in that category of lunatics.

Quotes by Sherrod Brown

Secretary Clinton, right from day one, wants to do real investment in public works and infrastructure, building highways and bridges, building airports, to doing what we need to do that way which lifts the economy up, undoubtedly.

Quotes by Sherrod Brown

I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting.

Quotes by Sherry Stringfield

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

Quotes by Sherry Turkle

I'd rather bake 14 times a day than bake one time a day and have all the bakers go home, and then everything's 14 hours old by the time anyone eats it. No.

Quotes by Sherry Yard

At the end of the day, I live in Silicon Valley and L.A., and for selfish reasons, I'd love to have Los Angeles and San Francisco connected with the Hyperloop.

Quotes by Shervin Pishevar

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Quotes by Shelley Winters

I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.

Quotes by Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

The road to success has to have obstacles because, at the end of the day, when success comes, it will be that much better.

Quotes by Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.

Quotes by Shemar Moore

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

Quotes by Shepard Smith

I relate to what Gov. Romney brings. I know what it means to balance a budget. I know what it means to write a paycheck and not only cash one. I know what it means to create a job, and...

Quotes by Sher Valenzuela

I must work the works of Him Who sent me while it is yet day.

Quotes by Sheldon Jackson

My first job was playing 'Nurse 2' in a film by Ben Elton called 'Maybe Baby,' and the first actors I worked with professionally were Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. I was totally star-struck. I got that job on my...

Quotes by Shelley Conn

We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.

Quotes by Shelley Duvall

We'd be very happy to work with any government of the day which the people in India elect.

Quotes by Shehbaz Sharif

For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.

Quotes by Sheila E.

When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 A.M. That first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other. Harmony is the...

Quotes by Shekhar Kapur

I think film requires a lot more patience and concentration and each day you're keeping the entire picture in your head throughout a two to three month film shoot. Whereas TV, especially half hour, is like doing a play a...

Quotes by Shawnee Smith

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.