Quotes on Day

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Author: Edward Abbey

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

Author: Floyd Abrams

Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

Author: Victoria Abril

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

Author: Alvin Adams

It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie.

Author: Andre Agassi

I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.

Author: Debbie Allen

I know a doctor who can give you a shot and you'll get over that cold you've got and get better in a day.

Author: Mel Allen

At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set.

Author: Rick Allen

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

Author: George Allen, Sr.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

Author: William Allingham

I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.

Author: Fernando Alonso

I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.

Author: Herb Alpert

That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.

Author: Jack Anderson

Fortunately, I got called down to NASA for an interview. And one thing led to the next, and one day I got that call. I've been here about seven years now and am really enjoying it.

Author: Michael Anderson

If somebody ever wished to be me for a day, they'd be the most pissed-off person once they got here. They would be, like, in hell.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.

Author: Kojo Annan

Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right.

Author: Robert Anthony

I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day.

Author: Susan Anton

I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.

Author: Sergio Aragones

I need to run every day. If I don't I feel cheated.

Author: Joan Ark

You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!

Author: Giorgio Armani

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

Author: Joan Armatrading

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Author: Lance Armstrong

But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been.

Author: Will Arnett

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.

Author: William Ashley

The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.

Author: William Ashley

Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.

Author: Shawn Ashmore

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Author: Mackenzie Astin

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Author: Brooks Atkinson

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Author: Margaret Atwood

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

Author: John Audubon

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.

Author: John Audubon

Each day provides its own gifts.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Author: Jane Austen

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

Author: Sebastian Bach

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

Author: Erykah Badu

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

Author: Chris Bailey

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

Author: Joanna Baillie

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

Author: Nicholson Baker

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

Author: Abu Bakr

Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

Author: Stanley Baldwin

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.

Author: Stanley Baldwin

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

Author: Ernie Banks

It's a beautiful day for a ballgame... Let's play two!

Author: Ernie Banks

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

Author: Joseph Barbera

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

Author: Travis Barker

One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all.

Author: Jim Barksdale

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

Author: John Barlow

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Author: Djuna Barnes

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.

Author: Richard Barnfield

I figure if my kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

Author: Roseanne Barr

So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.

Author: Alice Barrett

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.

Author: Drew Barrymore

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

Author: Drew Barrymore

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

Author: Ethel Barrymore

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

Author: Bruce Barton

I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.

Author: Sean Bean

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

Author: James Beattie

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Author: Lord Beaverbrook

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

Author: Martha Beck

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

Author: Samuel Beckett

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Author: Henry Beecher

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Author: Brendan Behan

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.

Author: Joachim Bellay

I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year.

Author: Julie Benz

It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.

Author: Patty Berg

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

Author: Sandra Bernhard

In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

Author: Corbin Bernsen

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Author: Leonard Bernstein

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.

Author: Yogi Berra

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

Author: Wendell Berry

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic.

Author: Judy Biggert

While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.

Author: Tim Bishop

Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.

Author: Mark Bittman

When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.

Author: Kenneth Blackwell

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

Author: Kathleen Blanco

I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

Author: Orlando Bloom

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

Author: Sherwood Boehlert

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

Author: John Boehner

One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.

Author: Jan Bont

On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.

Author: Daniel Boone

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

Author: Daniel Boone

It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that's something you can't really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there's hiss there as well.

Author: Sean Booth

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

Author: Jorge Borges

The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.

Author: Ernest Borgnine

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

Author: George Borrow

What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here.

Author: Ian Botham

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

Author: Timothy Bottoms

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

Author: Lara Boyle

It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.

Author: Ben Bradlee

I'm getting tired of answering the same questions every day.

Author: Milton Bradley

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brishing your teath is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.

Author: Tom Brady

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

Author: Lakhdar Brahimi

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

Author: Louis Brandeis

I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day.

Author: Jonathan Brandis

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Author: Robert Brault

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

Author: Robert Brault

When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.

Author: Rory Bremner

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

Author: Poppy Brite

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.

Author: Tom Brokaw

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

Author: Garth Brooks

Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?

Author: Gwendolyn Brooks

You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month.

Author: Herb Brooks

So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

Author: Corrine Brown

Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program.

Author: David Brown

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

Author: Dennis Brown

Every day you learn something new.

Author: Dennis Brown

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

Author: Eric Brown

But we did the best we could and in the end some of us had to get day jobs and start fresh.

Author: Steve Brown

Live every day as if it is your last, and you'll be correct sooner than you otherwise would be.

Author: Craig Bruce

I like going to the gym every day.

Author: Frank Bruno

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

Author: William Bryan

I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

Author: Bear Bryant

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.

Author: Sergei Bubka

We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist.

Author: Sergei Bubka

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.

Author: Charles Buck

Every dogma has its day.

Author: Anthony Burgess

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

Author: James Burke

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

Author: Ken Burns

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

Author: Ken Burns

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

Author: Augusten Burroughs

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

Author: William Burroughs

So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him up out of the incubator and take him out, and that was the whole shot.

Author: Steve Burton

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

Author: Carter Burwell

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

Author: Barbara Bush

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

Author: Barbara Bush

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

Author: Octavia Butler

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Author: Samuel Butler

Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.

Author: James Caan

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

Author: Scott Caan

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

Author: Candace Cameron

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

Author: Glen Campbell

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Author: Albert Camus

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

Author: Max Cannon

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.

Author: Robert Capon

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

Author: Orson Card

Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.

Author: Duane Carey

One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter.

Author: Duane Carey

Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us.

Author: Duane Carey

So, we have to get up and get pumped up for each day.

Author: Duane Carey

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

Author: Duane Carey

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

Author: Donald Cargill

THIS is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.

Author: Donald Cargill

When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Author: George Carlin

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

Author: Steve Carlton

Sure, I'd take the responsibility of queen any day.

Author: Charisma Carpenter

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

Author: Edward Carpenter