Day Quotes

"It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that"

Robbie Fowler, Athlete

"One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music"

Robert Moog, Inventor

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

Herb Brooks, Coach

"Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication"

Roger Staubach, Athlete

"And indeed, last week, the FBI executed a search warrant on my residence. This happened one day after my attorneys had left a message on the lead FBI investigator's voice mail confirming my continued readiness to answer questions and otherwise cooperate"

Steven Hatfill, Scientist

"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?"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset"

Dan O'Brien, Athlete

"Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day"

Janet Frame, Novelist

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper"

Jerry Seinfeld, Comedian

"I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am"

Judy Holliday, Actress

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

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters"

John Bonham, Musician

"I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God"

Aaron Eckhart, Actor

"Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress"

Betty Hill, Celebrity

"The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the years. Many of us have worked on it since the beginning, so there's a sadness when we all go our separate ways"

David Heyman, Producer

"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England"

Archibald MacLeish, Poet

"I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day"

James Dean, Actor

"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came"

Jefferson Davis, President

"And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace"

Anthony Burgess, Novelist

"It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success"

Lionel Messi, Athlete

"My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child"

Antonio Villaraigosa, Politician

"We shred every day"

Fawn Hall, Celebrity

"It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle"

Bob Keeshan, Entertainer

"One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!"

Eric Carle, Author

"Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think"

Mary Wortley Montagu, Writer

"Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth"

Samantha Smith, Celebrity

"The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter"

Roberto Bolano, Novelist

"We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue"

George Allen, Politician

"In the last couple of years, I guess I've spent six figures on clothes. I figure I spend a lot of time shopping. Eight to ten days a month, I go out and buy. Yeah, I guess you could say that I'm a real clothes whore"

Sam Kinison, Comedian

"One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules"

Roald Hoffmann, Scientist

"He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?"

Robert Adamson, Philosopher

"I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days"

W. Richard Stevens, Scientist

"Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away"

Phyllis McGinley, Author

"The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done"

Arthur Balfour, Statesman

"God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day"

Kathie Lee Gifford, Entertainer

"Ten days that shook the world"

John Reed, Journalist

"I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town"

Norm Dicks, Politician

"Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach"

James Lind, Scientist

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