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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 never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

Quotes by Sarah Waters

I have always liked coming home and sharing what has happened that day with my loved ones. I like comparing notes. I know other people do, too. I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who...

Quotes by Sarah Kay

My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily.

Quotes by Sarah Koenig

If he could go back, choose another career, my father would have liked to have been an environmentalist of some kind, which is why he'd really like to be remembered for something almost nobody knows he did: naming Earth Day....

Quotes by Sarah Koenig

I play piano every day.

Quotes by Sarah McLachlan

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

Quotes by Sarah McLachlan

There's a competitive grief atmosphere in acting classes. Like, whoever has the biggest trauma is sort of like the winner of the day today or gets the A+. That, I could identify with from when I sort of dabbled with...

Quotes by Sarah Goldberg

I'm very much about living in the moment and taking each day as it comes.

Quotes by Sarah Greene

I don't think you can expect someone to be personally attacked day after day, minute by minute, and sit back.

Quotes by Sarah Huckabee Sanders

In Washington, it's often easy to go to work, get lost in the process, and forget why we're here every day. The reason we're here is to serve the American people.

Quotes by Sarah Huckabee Sanders

I just filmed a movie with my boyfriend, an indie film called 'Conception.' And it's kind of like an R-rated version of 'Valentine's Day.' So it's like all about eight couples, and me and my boyfriend play one of them...

Quotes by Sarah Hyland

I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.

Quotes by Sarah Hyland

What I decide to wear literally depends on how I'm feeling that day.

Quotes by Sarah Hyland

Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.

Quotes by Sarah Burton

I find day after day of sunshine boring.

Quotes by Sarah Carter

I think, at the end of the day, acting and activism are both about empathy. You're trying to get people to see other people as real and human. And to care.

Quotes by Sara Ramirez

I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community. That's going to be with me 'till the day I die and beyond. I mean, that's just what it is!

Quotes by Sara Ramirez

The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.

Quotes by Sarah Addison Allen

Life has got better and better since the day I left school. I felt like I wasn't comfortable in my own skin.

Quotes by Sarah Alexander

I drink lots of water - being under hot lamps all day is very dehydrating.

Quotes by Sarah Alexander

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.