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Quotes About Daydreaming

big sofas for a nap on Sunday afternoon; comfy reading chairs with good light and a view out the window for daydreaming
~ Ina Garten
That means that people who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it. Daydreaming
~ Daniel J. Levitin
Daydreaming and mind-wandering, we now know, are a natural state of the brain. This accounts for why we feel so refreshed after it, and why vacations and naps can be so restorative.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy, I'll be your hope, I'll be your love & all that you want me to be... I dream of you when I'm asleep, you even appear when I'm awake daydreaming. There is no escaping you. I just wish it was true.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
I live in fantasies. I live terrific lives in my head. It's part of the creative imagination, to daydream, to invent stories.
~ Donald Miller
The boy's mother said he was autistic and sometimes spaced out, staring at his hands, but because I didn't know what autism was, really, I figured he was more or less mesmerized by his existence. I was romanticizing the situation because the kid was probably distracting himself or daydreaming or something, but I thought maybe he was like Hamlet looking at his hands, thinking sincerely about what it means to have been born.
~ Donald Miller
neuroscientists claim the average human being spends more than 30 percent of their time daydreaming . . . unless they're reading, listening to, or watching a story unfold.
~ Donald Miller
This obsession was dangerous, he knew that. If anybody ever found out his reputation would be ruined, livelihood destroyed all for some hillbilly-kid with a tight ass and a talented mouth. Just a quick taste, a lick, a suck, a f**** and then he'll be cured. The demon will succumb, Richard is sure of it. He just needs to scratch this itch, quench his thirst and then things will fall back into place. He'll stop daydreaming about those eyes, that hair and that boy.
~ Unknown
Those nostalgic for the region's good old days are not remembering; they're daydreaming.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
These test results were bewildering to Jack's mother, Alice, who considered him to be an inattentive child; in her view, Jack's propensity for daydreaming made him immature for his age.
~ John Irving
He has a tendency to slip the bounds of the real, tangible world around him and enter another place. He will sit in a room in body, but in his head he is somewhere else, someone else, in a place known only to him.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Sigues pensando en ella? - A veces - ¿A menudo? - Un poco por la mañana, un poco a mediodía, un poco por la tarde y un poco por la noche.
~ Marc Levy
Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.
~ John Steinbeck
He found that he could communicate his material daydreaming—and, properly applied, that is all advertising is.
~ John Steinbeck
I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
~ Don McLean
I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Real life is such a boring experience. I want to live in my imagination.
~ Unknown
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
~ Steven Wright
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
~ Mark Twain
I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.
~ Bill Watterson
Gil has put his book down and is gazing at something inside his head.
~ Meg Rosoff
Maybe ET will use math to get our attention—a string of prime numbers, perhaps, or the apparently omnipresent, omni-important Pythagorean theorem. High school trig teachers should rebrand it the alien communication formula. That would've kept you from daydreaming in class, right?
~ Unknown
I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.
~ Mindy Kaling
With no music to listen to, I just biked around in circles talking to myself like a kid on the cover of a Robert Cormier young adult novel,
~ Mindy Kaling