The Day Before Quotes

#1. Everyone has a few little quirks in their preparation - I just tend to do the same sort of things as I did in previous competitions - but there's nothing too weird, sticking with lucky knickers or socks! For instance, I'll see my family the day before a fight but won't see them on the day.

Jade Jones

#2. You wouldn't run a marathon the day before you run a marathon, you need to leave some sort of surprise for your body.

Greg James

#3. But after a while, that too passes, and she and Jack go back to normal, as they have been before, which is to say that they, like all the other couples Kathryn has ever known, live in a state of gentle decline, of being infinitesimally, but not agonizingly, less than they were the day before.

Anita Shreve

#4. Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

Zig Ziglar

#5. The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

Stevie Nicks

#6. When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.

Carolina Herrera

#7. His mother had survived decades of marriage to his angry, disappointed, alcoholic father by developing what she called a "forgettery" instead of a memory. She woke up every day and forgot the day before.

Salman Rushdie

#8. We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

James Truslow Adams

#9. There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.

Hillary Clinton

#10. The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.

George Benson

#11. Every day you awaken, the day before you is a mystery, that is the mystery of life -Maggie Bayliss

Maggie Baylis

#12. I can see through the human heart, and I know that life's biggest prize is to have the day before you as yours alone to do with as you wish.

Morrissey

#13. The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

Elizabeth Montagu

#14. It's very difficult, I think, for people to be around you when you're getting lots of attention. It's very difficult for young people to understand what that's about when people start treating you differently when you've been doing the same thing you were doing the day before.

Julian Schnabel

#15. I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper and found a story that happened around here yesterday or the day before that's just as shocking as anything in my book.

Donald Ray Pollock

#16. He said it without greeting, as if they had parted the day before. Because it took her a moment to regain the art of breathing, she realized for the first time how much that voice meant to her.

Ayn Rand

#17. For a time Dish lost all sense of what life was about. He even lost the sense that he was a cowboy, the strongest sense he had to work with. He was just a fellow with a glass in his hand, whose life had suddenly turned to mud. The day before he had been a top hand, but what did that mean anymore?

Larry McMurtry

#18. I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

John Lydon

#19. Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us? It is not clear what dictates the choice nor why, among the millions of human beings we might be, it is the being we were the day before that we unerringly grasp.

Marcel Proust

#20. The day before the disaster, Iris Carr had her first premonition of danger. She was used to the protection of a crowd, whom - with unconscious flattery - she called 'her friends'. An attractive orphan of independent means, she had been surrounded always with clumps of people.

Ethel Lina White

#21. I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

Mike Myers

#22. You're the same as you were yesterday and the day before. Nothing has changed. Not really. Forget what troubles you. Regret nothing, but learn from any mistakes you make. Tomorrow will be a brighter day, I promise.

Morgan Rhodes

#23. I find it helpful when I stop for the day to leave the last sentence unfinished or the last paragraph only lightly sketched out, so that when I start again I can pick up where I left off the day before.

Julia Bell

#24. The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

Nicolas Chamfort

#25. I often think that being a woman in this world must feel like waking up every day to find that someone deleted what you wrote the day before.

Rakesh Satyal

#26. The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.

Mads Mikkelsen

#27. I can drive a certain car one day with great pleasure, and the next day I'll be disappointed that the experience isn't as good as the day before. These cars have moods that change with the weather, or with the driver's own moods.

Ralph Lauren

#28. The sun rises each morning to shed light on the things we may have overlooked the day before.

Tyler J. Hebert

#29. The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day.

Ryan Hall

#30. Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.

Walter Isaacson

#31. Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.

Jon Foreman

#32. Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

Ian Fleming

#33. Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best moment of the year for me. The anticipation of the game to come. But that was when all I had to lose was my life.

Maggie Stiefvater

#34. The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.

Pope Pius XII

#35. The first moments of being awake are neutral, as they always are, waiting for us to assign memory and meaning from the day before.

Sarah Ockler

#36. Mondays I sleep. I go in at ten, do my lift, watch the game from the day before. Tuesday is off, but I go in, lift, watch film. Then I have French toast with my sister.

Ndamukong Suh

#37. I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values.

Richard Smalley

#38. The morning's recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

David Markson

#39. I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was a Democrat. We just didn't have any Republicans, because anyone running as a Republican was very out of touch with what our community needed.

Leah D. Daughtry

#40. The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day.

Jose Saramago

#41. The sun might shine or the clouds might lower, but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#42. I had not said anything about what had happened the day before - about being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave, one by one.

Sharon Creech

#43. Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.

Betty Buckley

#44. What if you save for 40 years, putting off all kinds of opportunities, then get hit by a bus the day before retirement? Better to plan for the future while also living in the present.

Chris Guillebeau

#45. Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day before. He was determined to take full advantage of his good fortune that he couldn't quite believe and share it with everyone around him.

Tom Brokaw

#46. Too fucking late for sorry, innit? I hope he catches bubonic plague and dies in slow fucking agony the day before they legalise euthanasia and then I'm gonna go and learn Riverdance and I don't care how fucking long it takes cos I wanna do it on his grave.

Richard Rider

#47. Everybody and their mother knows you don't train hard on Friday, the day before a race. But a lot of runners will overtrain on Thursday if left on their own. Thursday is the most dangerous day of the week.

Marty Stern

#48. When one wakes up in the morning, one's whole life is neatly laid out, consistent with the past, to the degree that we even (apparently) remember the same language spoken the day before, suggesting previous experience had simply entered a dormant state.

James R. Swartz

#49. This 'Knowledge' manifested in 1958! That day I became a 'Gnani' (the enlightened one)! The day before that, 'I' too was agnani (ignorant of the Self), wasn't I?

Dada Bhagwan

#50. For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.

Lincoln Child

#51. Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. "We used to call that the walk of shame," she said.

Marcy Dermansky

#52. In general, I don't even have the luxury of rehearsal time on most films that I make. It is just a scene-by-scene full cast read through. It's very much just doing the rehearsal sometimes the day before, at the end of the day, but just on the spot as the scene unfolds.

Wes Craven

#53. repeated the motions. He was bored out of his mind. A pigeon had arrived at his family's manor the day before. It brought a message stating the Queen was

Jenna Van Vleet

#54. I was a good student but I was also one of those people that could not got to class and then the day before the exam stay up all night (studying), which I do not recommend doing. But that's more the kind of thing you do when you're younger and you're in college in a band and wanted to party, too.

Jeff Kendrick

#55. Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Franz Grillparzer

#56. Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two o'clock in the morning feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before. Lucy: I'll just say we were out of town and I didn't have time to write anything.

Charles M. Schulz

#57. If you salt a chicken the day before cooking, it starts to break down the cell structure of the meat and allows it to take on more flavor and actually helps it to stay more moist. Same goes for a steak, a pork chop. A lot of people brine; we preseason.

Michael Symon

#58. Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. Trust that I can make it better. That if I keep trying, I will come closer to something true.

Mona Simpson

#59. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

John Lydon

#60. The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

Steve Ballmer

#61. It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

Luc Besson

#62. We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

Bill Vaughan

#63. When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was ... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.

Lee Hazlewood

#64. Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.

Miyamoto Musashi

#65. I love you. I want to do everything with you. I want to marry you and have kids with you and get old with you. And then I want to die the day before you do, so I never have to live without you.

Stacey Jay

#66. If I live a day and I don't know a little more than I did the day before, I think I wasted that day.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#67. I can't promise you I won't ever screw up, but I can promise you that every single day I wake up, I will love you more then the day before.

T.K. Chapin

#68. People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

Bill Vaughan

#69. The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday ...

Freya Stark

#70. The day before yesterday I spent the night at Arzamas and something extraordinary happened to me. It was 2 o'clock in the morning. I was terribly tired, I wanted to go to sleep and I felt perfectly well. But

Leo Tolstoy

#71. Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Nicolas Chamfort

#72. Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.

Harvey MacKay

#73. There had been a horrible incident the day before, when Hannah Abbott had been taken out of Herbology to be told her mother had been found dead. They

J.K. Rowling

#74. The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.

John F. Kennedy

#75. I said, the pope is saying bad things about me the day before the election? And then I gathered myself, and I realized that it had to do with illegal immigration, that he was opposed to my measures, which is basically creating a border.

Donald Trump

#76. I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

Frank Lampard

#77. It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

Jay-Z

#78. But not just alive like I was yesterday and the day before. Alive like I knew I was alive. Like I could feel the breaths coming into my chest. And I knew I was the person inside my own body.

Matt De La Pena

#79. Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before.

Doug Cooper

#80. Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.

Maddie Ziegler

#81. May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

William Kunstler

#82. We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

Deepak Chopra

#83. Because you never know when the day before ... Is the day before. Prepare for tomorrow.

Bobby Akart

#84. Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone noticing it, the dawn of the day before had been the beginning of the last light ever in the history of the world.

Anna Quindlen

#85. What was it that thus set so far asunder the morning of the day before yesterday and the evening of to-day?

Gustave Flaubert

#86. We live in a world of what have you done for me lately. We don't remember the day before sometimes. Think back five, six, years ago what he was doing. It's unheard of.

Kevin Durant

#87. When the alarm bell rings, you'd better wake up and realize that the customer expects more from you today than he did the day before. You'd better find ways to be better.

Gary L. Tooker

#88. Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.

Rita Rudner

#89. It was hard to know what direction to take when you suddenly found yourself in a future different from the one you'd expected to be in the day before.

Dexter Palmer

#90. If you had asked me the day before whether high school could get any worse, I would have bet you everything I had that I had sunk to the lowest I could get. Yet here I was, at a whole new sub-level I had never imagined.

John Goode

#91. Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Napoleon Hill

#92. A year on, Eleanor remained haunted by what happened to her. She still had no idea where the bacteria came from. Perhaps the foot soak and pedicure she had gotten at a small hair-and-nail shop the day before that wedding.

Atul Gawande

#93. I hadn't been at school since the day before my mother died and as long as I stayed away her death seemed unofficial somehow. But once I went back it would be a public fact. Worse: the thought of returning to any kind of normal routine seemed disloyal, wrong.

Donna Tartt

#94. I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

Sidney Poitier

#95. Count nothing lost; even the day that sees "no worthy action done" may be a day of preparation and accumulation that will add greatly to the achievements of tomorrow. Many a day was made famous because nothing was done the day before.

Christian D. Larson

#96. I feel great, very healthy and alive and really happy that I can remember yesterday and I can remember the day before.

Nicole Richie

#97. It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

Cat Osterman

#98. We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.

Tucker Elliot

#99. They pushed us into the fight to defund Obamacare and shut down the government. And the day before the government reopened, one of these groups said, 'Well, we never thought it would work.' Are you kidding me?!

John Boehner

#100. That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

Nicholson Baker