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Quotes About Day

trying to extricate from the long day the grain of pleasure
~ Graham Greene
The possession of a body tonight seemed a very small thing—perhaps that day I had seen too many bodies which belonged to no one, not even to themselves. We were all expendable.
~ Graham Greene
Sometimes I would wake with a sense of pain, sometimes with pleasure. If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have to dream of her at night.
~ Graham Greene
We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility.
~ Grant Morrison
It had been a quiet day in the Kitsap County Morgue, which meant it had been a good day. No one who worked there ever cursed their jobs because there was "nothing to do." An empty chiller meant a day without carrying the hurt of someone else's loss. A child. A wife. Even a friend.
~ Gregg Olsen
assassin grief, he'd once called it: the kind of grief that lies in wait and attacks from ambush, with no warning and no mercy. I know now that assassin grief can hide for years and the strike suddenly, on the happiest day, without discernible reason or exegesis.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for a truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable yearning to be
~ Gregory David Roberts
Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.
~ Leon Day
I used to have a routine where I would eat a meal during the World Series of Poker. I would play, they would call it a day and I would go work out. I would always order poached salmon with mushrooms and I would dip the salmon into a side of ranch dressing.
~ Phil Hellmuth
Most of 'Let the Great World Spin' is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel's multiple protagonists.
~ Susan Barker
I didn't realise the depth of horror that happened in the Second World War every day.
~ Chris Tarrant
What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
~ Larry Williams
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
~ Fay Vincent
The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.
~ Kathleen Blanco
I like to look like a tomboy during the day and then a pin-up girl at night.
~ Josephine de La Baume
From an early age, I was very interested in all things fashion... and the change from tomboy to ultrafeminine glamour in old films. There was a Doris Day film I loved: 'Calamity Jane.'
~ Stella McCartney
I'm 99 today and I'll be 100 tomorrow. It's another day.
~ John Morton
Your natural tendency, human nature, is to always look and see if there's an opportunity. But that's something that I don't spend a ton of time doing because I'm pretty meat and potatoes when it comes to approaching the day.
~ Monty Williams
What is striking in Minnesota is the invisible horizon line. On a grey day, when there's snow on the ground, the sky and the ground are one tone. Everyone appears to be hanging in mid-air.
~ Ethan Coen
I'll talk about my Tony all day long.
~ Eva Longoria
I heard of this Texas studio. The owner, Tony Rancich, wanted to fly us out for the day to see the studio. I booked it the next day. He's that rare guy that is in it purely for the love of it.
~ James Vincent McMorrow
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
~ Djuna Barnes
Of course mobile phones are always kept out of the room during Cabinet meetings, for security reasons. But to keep a politician from his or her mobile for a whole day is a use of power which almost amounts to torture.
~ Damian Green
Very few things are totally devoid of any possibility of humor. If you are aware of that possibility and alive to the scene becoming that way, then it just happens naturally. That's what I feel living is like, too. I find a lot of things that make me smile or make me laugh over the course of the day.
~ Tom Drury