Daydreaming Quotes - Page 2

• I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

  Kate Smith

  Singing, Broadway, Bigs

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• A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

  Leonard Susskind

  Ideas, Research, Difficult

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• How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Love, Dreaming About You, Nightmare

  "Afterthoughts".

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• A daydream is an evasion.

  Thomas Merton

  Evasion

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.27, Image

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• A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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• Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

  James Black

  School, Math, Years

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• As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

  Christine Keeler

  Girl, Horse, Real

  "The lady's not a tramp". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.

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• To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Children, Self, Unhappy

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• Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

  Robert Breault

  Secure, Ifs

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• Will you gather daydreams or will you gather wealth? How can you find your fortune when you cannot find yourself?

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Philosophy, Finding Yourself, Wealth

  Song: Sit Down Young Stranger

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• Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

  Michael Pollan

  Self, Shapes, Size

  Michael Pollan (2013). “A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder”, p.9, Random House

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• I get the most joy in life out of music.

  Albert Einstein

  Joy

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• The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

  Ian Mcewan

  Dream, Cost, Littles

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.76, Random House

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• Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.

  Albert Einstein

  School, Acceptance, Class

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• My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B.

  Jenson Button

  School, Class, Careers

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• I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Very Good, Asks

  "Q&A: Iron Maiden's Dickinson looks 'Back in Time'". Interview with Paul Sexton, www.reuters.com. May 12, 2008.

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• I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.

  John Sebastian

  Elevators, Unlimited, Trombone

  Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. March 5, 2000.

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• He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Inspiring, Dream

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Fascination, Patterns, Able

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• The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.

  Ian Mcewan

  Littles, Return, Details

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.76, Random House

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• To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.

  John Daishin Buksbazen

  Beauty, Future, Mean

  John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

  David Morrissey

  Planning, Chill, Pleasure

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Daydreaming subverts the world.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  World

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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• I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Phones, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.

  Grace Paley

  Lying, Writing, Thinking

  Grace Paley, Gerhard Bach, Blaine H. Hall (1997). “Conversations with Grace Paley”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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