This Day Quotes

Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day you will not be safe.

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

The first day of school is bullshit

Take a moment each day to focus on the good, and then try to carry that with you throughout the day, because while bangs don't look good on everyone, confidence does.

Until, one day, she wasn’t.

I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

You know, it's a long world.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

I just woke up one day when I was six and I wanted to play the violin. Then, six years later, I didn't want to play the violin, but I wanted to sing and play the guitar.

I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.

At the end of the day, my hat goes off to anybody trying to run for president, or trying to be president, because you're never going to please everybody, it's not possible.

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.

You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.

He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.

I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.

Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.

At the end of the day, you should take every opportunity that comes your way.

Every player, in his secret heart, wants to manage one day. Every fan, in the privacy of his mind, already does.

I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.

The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable.

When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.

God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution—to just not relax—was kind of sucking.

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.

I don't think most people would want me to have a business relationship as a senator where my business partners can reap the benefit of my position and I one day get the share the profits.

The Iranians have shared every weapon they've ever developed with terrorist organizations. I fear they would share nuclear technology with a terrorist organization that would one day come here.

At the end of the day, every media entity is in the business of selling soap. They're not afraid of being popular.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

Thomas Bowman's toupee, alas, was never found. He was somewhat mollified by the gift of a very fine hat from Westcliff on Christmas day.

I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you.

I highly regret this day in advance.

No rash decisions. No big commitments. Each day as it comes.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

People talk about the All Woman video to this day.

I believe everything has a solution, and I take it one day at a time or one thing at a time.

God, three weddings in one day, I'm going to be in Spanx for 12 hours. My elastic line is gonna get infected again.

Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.

Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks

I am currently in nursing school, so one day I will be both a nurse and a writer.

I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.