Quotes About Daydream

I admit to a specialized occupation, which in fact has not so much as acquired a name. Not to put too keen an edge on it, I wait under gallows until the corpse drops, whereupon I assume possession of the clothes and valuables. I find little competition in the field; the work is dull, and I will never become wealthy, but at least it is honest, and I have time to daydream.

Whenever I'm cooking at home over a steamy pot, I daydream about the day I'll have a soda gun installed in my kitchen to spray seltzer directly into my mouth.

really, what a strange man he is, thought klara, with that aching feeling of loneliness which always overcomes us when someone dear to us surrenders to a daydream in which we have no place.

There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

Growing up, I didn't really watch a lot of standup. I didn't know you could be a low-energy comedian. It was something I did daydream about, but in the way you daydream about becoming the president or something - it could never happen.

I think I'll go over and introduce myself to that little red-haired girl. I think I'll introduce myself, and then ask her to come over and sit next to me. I think I'll ask her to sit next to me here, and then I think I'll tell her how much I've always admired her... I think I'll flap my arms, and fly to the moon.

a pleasant reverie

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

Nothing matters. You get yourself into a state in which you imagine things which have no basis in reality... One begins for some reason to worry about something and, if one allows oneself to go on doing that, one gradually imagines all kinds of things. It is a kind of self-indulgence and one gets into a perpetual daydream. It is essential to stop this process and face the real world -- which is never so bad as all that.

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

And also because there's a dragon there who I'm definitely not thinking about and certainly do not think about all the time.

To live on the prairie is to daydream. It is the only conceivable response to such immensity. It is when we are smallest that our daydreams come quickest.

Acordava antes de todos, pois para ir à escola teria que pegar um ônibus e um bonde, o que lhe tomaria uma hora. O que lhe daria uma hora. De devaneio agudo como um crime.

I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.

The American daydream, what made Us great: make a concession, take a stand.

I'm not an activist. I'm a fantasist.

I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door. But I discovered the value of four walls and a roof. Something about containment that at the same time offers escape.

I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.

If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

I'm a nineteen-year-old guy with nothing better to do than moonlight as a doorman, and daydream about you.

I live in a little dream world.

It seems that Fate has decreed that I live through my entire daydream in reality!

In a daydream I used to have, all these places were points of happiness to me; all these places were lifeboats to my small drowning soul, for I would imagine myself entering and leaving them, and just that - entering and leaving over and over again - would see me through a bad feeling I did not have a name for. I only knew it felt a little like sadness but heavier than that.

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