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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.

My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.

Quotes by Ryan Lochte

When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.

Quotes by Ryan Lochte

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

Quotes by Ryan Murphy

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

Quotes by Ryan Murphy

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told...

Quotes by Ryan Murphy

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

Quotes by Ryan Phillippe

We only have so much energy for our work, for our relationships, for ourselves. A smart person understands this and guards it carefully. Meanwhile, idiots focus on marginal productivity hacks and gains while they leak out energy each passing day.

Quotes by Ryan Holiday

Music hits everyone differently every single day.

Quotes by Ryan Hurd

I think about work 24 hours a day. But when you fly a helicopter, for that hour or two you can't think about anything else.

Quotes by Ryan Kavanaugh

There's a certain addiction to sweat, for sure. I'm not the same person without it. If I don't get my hour of exercise in every day, then I'm not the person that I want to be.

Quotes by Ryan Kwanten

If I hear about a tsunami that hit Asia, hundreds of people have lost their lives, and you see it and you hear about it, but you still brush your teeth, still have to go on with your day. But...

Quotes by Ryan Coogler

The ‘Team Up North’ is something that we talk about every single day. And the best way to respect a rivalry is to work it every day. And we do.

Quotes by Ryan Day

You’re working a million hours and you’re on the road recruiting and you’re doing all these things, but at the end of the day, you’re competing for a championship. You’re competing for a Big Ten Championship, you’re in the Rose...

Quotes by Ryan Day

I think it’s important for these guys to know we love them and care about them and at the end of the day, that’s going to motivate them to want to lead, play harder, and all the things we ask...

Quotes by Ryan Day

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't...

Quotes by Ryan Giggs

I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person.

Quotes by Ryan Guzman

Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.

Quotes by Ruud van Nistelrooy

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

Quotes by Ruud van Nistelrooy

I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to...

Quotes by Ruth Reichl

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

Quotes by Ruth Reichl

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.