Quotes about day
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“What is that smell? (Nick)
(It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.)
Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from thinking I’m human. (Mark)
Yeah, well it keeps me from thinking you’re sane. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Cats, Thinking

“well that's convenient, i guess blessings are easier to come by than i thought. maybe i should ask for blessings on my mission against all those who wear white after labor day”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Books

“And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.”

James Clavell book King Rat

Source: King Rat

Food

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

Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach

The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, , p. 10.
Said on Yogi Berra day in 1947 in St. Louis. By his account, he asked a teammate to write a speech, and he misspoke, saying "necessary" instead of "possible."
Yogiisms
Variant: Thank you for making this day necessary.

“It's a road," Corey said, pointing.
"A dirt road," Hayley muttered.
"So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Source: The Calling

“Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.”

Frances Mayes book Under the Tuscan Sun

Source: Under the Tuscan Sun

Feeling, Business, Country

“Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.”

Cathy Guisewite (1950) Cartoonist

“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”

Brad Meltzer (1970) writer

Dependency

“My two great loves. I think I always knew I would be Belly Fisher one day. I just didn't know it was going to happen like this.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Love, Thinking

“Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.”

Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”

Alan Bennett book The Uncommon Reader

Source: The Uncommon Reader

Reading

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan (31 August 1959) "Selected Quotations", Eisenhower Archives, Eisenhower Library, 2007-04-01, http://web.archive.org/web/20070208232736/http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/ss1.htm, 2007-02-08 http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/ss1.htm, 1950s

People, Peace, Way, Thinking

“Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better”

Kevin Henkes (1960) American children's illustrator and writer

Variant: Today was a difficult day.
Tomorrow will be better.'
-Mr. Slinger
Source: Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

“The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

World

“You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.”

George MacDonald book The Day Boy and the Night Girl

Source: The Day Boy and the Night Girl

Strong, Learning

“All romantics meet the same fate some day.
Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician

Fate

“Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

Change

“Ooh. Top secret angel business, huh? What’re you going to do? Dance on a pinhead? Lobby for National Cute Puppy Day?”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

Secret, Angels, Business, Dance

“This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.”

Alice Hoffman book Here on Earth

Source: Here on Earth

Life

“Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.
The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Sobek

Source: The Son of Sobek

“I held a jewel in my fingers
And went to sleep.
The day was warm, and winds were prosy;
I said: "'T will keep."

I woke and chid my honest fingers,—
The gem was gone;
And now an amethyst remembrance
Is all I own.”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Sleep

“So…
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
you're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So… get on your way!”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Way, Mountain, Waiting

“We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.”

Gavin Pretor-Pinney (1950) British writer

Source: The Cloudspotter's Guide

Life, Thinking, Fight

“… your mind was seizing on something to try to make sense of the emotion… Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Rise of the Evening Star

Sense

“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

World, Dreams, Reality

“When I'm running I don't have to talk to anybody and don't have to listen to anybody. This is a part of my day I can't do without.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Parting

“Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Way, Boy

“Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Flowers, Sun

“He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Hope, Appearance, Change, Time

“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

Life, Courage, Thinking

“I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day.

A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: The World and Other Places: Stories

Dreams

“It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Thinking

“she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

God

“It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Sadness, Time, Night

“Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Music, Sleep, Time

“Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Learning, Time

“Yeah, some days you die.”

Peter Hedges (1962) American novelist, screenwriter, film director

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

“If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.”

Yann Martel book Beatrice and Virgil

Source: Beatrice and Virgil

“Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments. Though we fall short, our labour is not lost if this day surpasses the preceding one.”

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

Page 23.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)

Way, Despair

“Where's Amy?" Ian put in. "Will you please get her to call that Evan character? He rings here twenty times a day. He's either the most mule-headed person who ever lived, or he really likes your sister. She has to have mercy on him–on all of us!”

Gordon Korman book The Medusa Plot

Source: The Medusa Plot

Sister, Time, Personality

“the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths”

Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol

Source: The Lost Symbol

Truth, Idea

“There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Source: Nausea, The Wall and Other Stories

Books, Universe

“You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.”

Georgette Heyer book The Nonesuch

Source: The Nonesuch

Personality

“If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

World

“These are the days of bootleg love.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Love

“He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Sense

“I wouldn't cut you out of my life Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift."
Gross," said Clary. "Must you?"
Simon grinned. "I must.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Life

“Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Variant: But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Laila, p. 250
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

Food, Tea

“No other road, no other way, no day but today.”

Jonathan Larson (1960–1996) American composer and playwright

Way

“Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

“Just curious how much I'm going for these days," Leo said. "I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe… but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Understanding

“What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?” cried Daisy, “and the day after that, and the next thirty years?”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.”

Toni Morrison Love

Source: Love

Beauty, Silence, Help

“Percy grunted. “Believe me, some days I regret the choice. Oh, you want to turn down our offer? Okay, fine! ZAP! Lose your memory! Go to Tartarus!”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Memory

“He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Smile, Past

“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Smile, Good Morning, Cute

“We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?”

Sophie Kinsella (1969) British writer

Time, Personality

“One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”
“Right, and one day my prince might come.”
“I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Men, Kiss

“There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.”

Lewis Nordan (1939–2012) American writer

Happiness, Sadness

“There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Variant: There is a reason God limits man's days.
Source: The Time Keeper

God

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

Reflections on the Atom Bomb (1946)

Sense

“Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

Books

“If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.”

Nicole Krauss (1974) American novelist

Life, Way, Cute

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Kiss

“It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Books, Heart

“Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it…”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Love, Happiness, Feeling

“O what a blessed day that will be when I shall… stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!”

Richard Baxter (1615–1691) English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer

Pain, Fear, Tear, Rage

“We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

People

“Don't you miss the days when America was just morally bankrupt?”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

But I'm Not Wrong (2010)
Source: Does Anybody Have a Problem With That? The Best of Politically Incorrect

“Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process.”

Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

Question

“So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

"Investigations of a Dog"
The Complete Stories (1971)
Source: The Great Wall of China and Other Stories

Dogs, Question, Knowledge, Light

“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.”

Francois Mauriac (1885–1970) French author

“And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Source: Gregor the Overlander

Death, Feeling, Joy, Cheating

“If time and space, as sages say,
Are things which cannot be,
The sun which does not feel decay
No greater is than we.
So why, Love, should we ever pray
To live a century?
The butterfly that lives a day
Has lived eternity.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Love, Feeling, Time, Sun

“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”

Iain Banks book The Crow Road

Source: The Crow Road

“… An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand…”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

“You keep running and one day when you stop running your going to fall, and I'm going to be there to catch you.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”

J.B. Priestley (1894–1984) English writer

Waiting, Good Morning, Moving On

“How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Perfection

“The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Future, Childhood

“Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Happiness

“What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.”

Don DeLillo (1936) American novelist, playwright and essayist

Source: Don DeLillo's White Noise

Knowledge, Change

“Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds
Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;
But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,
He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l’archer ; Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées, Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher. "L’Albatros" [The Albatross] (translated by James McGowan, Oxford University Press, 1993) http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99Albatros Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857) Source: Les Fleurs Du Mal

Love, Way

“He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.”

Lisa See book Peony in Love

Source: Peony in Love

Dreams, Feeling, Thinking, Heart

“She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake. Like on the seventh day God looked down, "There it is. My Creation, perfect and holy in all ways. Now I can rest. [Gives shocked expression] Oh my Me! I left fuckin' pot everywhere. I should never have smoked that joint on the third day. Hehe, that was the day I created the possum. Still gives me a chuckle. But if I leave pot everywhere, that's gonna give people the impression they're supposed to … use it. Now I have to create Republicans."”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

" … and God wept", I believe is the next part of that story.
Chicago '91 (1991)

God, People, Law, Way

“What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

Change

“If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

People, Dead