- Happy
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, as I was speaking to another mother of a disabled child, I said our secret weapon against this disease is to do all we can without any expectation of results.
- Far Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I adhere to my exercise program, which is about 20 minutes a day. I do it seven days a week. I have a little stall in the breezeway of our garage where I have a walking machine, a stair climber, and I do 15 pound weights, and I watch television. Because I hate exercise.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.
- Civil Rights Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal has always been not to look forward to the next thing, but to relish and celebrate the successes I have at the moment. Whether it's landing a part in a student film or having a good day in acting class, I never discredit anything.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I did three shows a day and I’d go to the gym. I was exercising excessively and cut out many meals.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020