Daydreaming Quotes - Page 7

• Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream.

  Taylor Swift

  Lovely, Nightmare, Blank Space

  Song: Blank Spaces, 2014

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• The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

  Selima Hill

  Success, Mistake, Guessing

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• What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration.

  David Foster Wallace

  Teacher, Taken, Class

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Oblivion: Stories”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to compensatingly increase and the dictator... will do well to encourage that freedom in conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, movies, and radio. It will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

  Julian Huxley

  Fate, Dope, Political

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• I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so writing like that is natural for me.

  Sefi Atta

  Writing, Play, Imagination

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Country, Broken, Realistic

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Why are Muslims so hypersensitive?'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

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• When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between the conscious management of what you're doing and this state. . . . I would say that it's related to daydreaming. When I feel really engaged with a passage, I become so lost in it that I'm unaware of my real surroundings, totally involved in the pictures and sounds that that passage evokes.

  John Hersey

  Dream, Real, Writing

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• We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.

  Molly Ivins

  Nice, Rap, Home

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• The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.

  Margaret Mead

  Winning, Men, Effort

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.125, Berghahn Books

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• Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Stories, Way

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• An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Political, Mood, Extremes

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• Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all the urgent reading, whatever that might be, has been done. We never arrive at that point, needless to say.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Reading, People

  Nick Hornby (2012). “More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself”, p.27, McSweeney's

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• Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

  James Redfield

  Dream, Spiritual, Destiny

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• I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. 'Back to the Future' fulfills all of those daydreams. It's the perfect movie.

  Sasha Grey

  Perfect, Childhood, Different

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• Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.

  Hortense Powdermaker

  Movie, Hollywood, Fantasy

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• I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

  Aneurin Barnard

  Father, Age, Watches

  "The Truth About Aneurin Barnard". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2012.

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• A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.

  Leonard Lauder

  Dream, Thinking, Knowing

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• Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.

  Daniel Goleman

  Motivational, Practice, Work Out

  Daniel Goleman (2013). “Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence”, p.114, A&C Black

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• There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood ...in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.

  Raj Patel

  Real, Book, Years

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• There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Gold, Debt, Treasure

  "No Man Knows My History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, Chapter 2, 1945.

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• I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky, I always remember being able to daydream, just looking at the sky, being creative, being able to design things. What would happen if we had no sky? Where would we be? Well, obviously, scientifically, without an atmosphere, we'd all be dead.

  Serj Tankian

  Kids, Sky, Design

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• She liked to imagine him stealing a glimpse of her over the backyard fence, proudly watching his strange daughter daydream under the beech tree. Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Daughter, Father, Blue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.85, Scholastic Inc.

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• I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Jekyll, Elements, Beloved

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

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• My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unaffected.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Spiritual, Husband, Passion

  Kathleen Tessaro (2013). “Elegance and Innocence: 2-Book Collection”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• They said daydreaming was against the law, but some of us escaped, slipping out windows and over cyclone fences, some of us flying away with heads like balloons. We taught our dogs to love the flavor of homework and became expert forgers of our parents’ signatures. We knew they were teaching us how to die but some of us said no in our stealthy and stubborn ways.

  Vern Rutsala

  Dog, Teaching, Law

  Vern Rutsala (2004). “A Handbook for Writers: New & Selected Prose Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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