Day Quotes

"I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better"

"I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess"

April Winchell, Actress

"I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights"

April Winchell, Actress

"My bedspread isn't washable. Since my bedding has to be washed every day, I'll have to throw it out"

April Winchell, Actress

"It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day"

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

"While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

"I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week"

Chaim Potok, Author

"Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day"

Joe Baca, Politician

"From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives"

Laura Miller, Politician

"Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day"

Arnold Newman, Photographer

"A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day"

J. Martin Kohe, Psychologist

"We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

"I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore"

Brad Pitt, Actor

"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"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week"

Ken Thompson, Scientist

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

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment"

Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer

"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!"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print"

William Goldman, Novelist

"And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"All the windows of my heart I open to the day"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"Sometimes I'll go by and there are a couple of swans, the next day it's a few ducks. I'd like to stop there every day for a year and capture how it changes, then put it all together to create an incredible image of a traditional English scene"

Graeme Le Saux, Athlete

"Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing"

Merlin Olsen, Athlete

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