- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a connection here in the city from the first day I arrived. I stayed in the city. I made San Francisco my home. I was seen in the offseason at a lot of different functions, and people liked that.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been in business together ever since we were children, so back in the day, there were so many references to 'your dad.' Rather than wanting to sound totally hickified and go, 'Well, my daddy said,' we would refer to him as 'Phil.'
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was working in the street and my mum was working every day as a cleaner. My life was like that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like, I did baseball, football, or track - I never really worked on a sport every day for years like most kids that hoop.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team.
- Courted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment and were too much afraid of losing their roosts to leave them for such a cause.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
- Nov 07, 2020
Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020