Friday Quotes

Fridays carry a special energy, the promise of rest, renewal, and a few well-earned smiles. This collection of Friday quotes offers a blend of encouragement, humor, and calm to help mark the shift from busy schedules to weekend breathing room. Whether you need a final push to wrap up tasks or a gentle reminder to slow down, these words aim to brighten the day and set an easygoing tone. Enjoy a moment of pause and step into the weekend with balance and optimism.

"I would rather have a root canal on a Friday afternoon than have a Twitter account"

Catherine O'Hara, Actress

Small: Catherine O'Hara

"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today"

Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty

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"The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday"

Noel Coward, Playwright

"Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night"

Richard H. Davis

"On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have"

Rick Wagoner, Businessman

"People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama"

Carmen Electra, Actress

"When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons"

Harry Shearer, Actor

"The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved"

Foxy Brown, Musician

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"My mobile rang around lunchtime one day, and it was George Michael. He wanted to come in on Friday. We were like, 'okay, if that's what you want'. And he was a very good guest. That's a real exception to the rule"

Graham Norton, Celebrity

"You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit"

John Newcombe, Athlete

"Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years"

John Mica, Politician

"Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day"

Martin Chemnitz, Theologian

"I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

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"We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th"

Orville Wright, Inventor

"Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show"

Marion Ross, Actor

"I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

Small: Lindsay Lohan

"I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say"

Brett Favre, Athlete

"I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly"

Wentworth Miller, Actor

"My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning"

Robert Ripley, Cartoonist

"Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful"

Mark Rydell, Director

"I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons"

Rube Goldberg, Cartoonist

"I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning"

Patty Duke, Actress

"Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night"

Jim Mitchell, Director

"If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on"

Amber Tamblyn, Actress

Small: Amber Tamblyn

"Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other"

Karen Kain, Dancer

"Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block"

John Tenniel, Artist

"Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday"

Jonathan Richman, Musician

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"If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night"

Kathy Griffin, Comedian

"I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day"

Mark Strong, Actor

"I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday"

Robert Stack, Actor

"Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways"

Al Lewis, Actor

"Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions"

Alex North, Composer

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