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Quotes About Daydreaming

What I like best is walking with my hands in my pockets, having the Doorman next to me, and imagining that Audrey's on my other side. I always picture us from behind.
~ Markus Zusak
my thoughts were far from the daring speculations of the writer.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming I will feel the coolness on my feet. I will let the wind bathe my bare head. I will not speak, I will have no thoughts: But infinite love will mount in my soul; And I will go far, far off, like a gypsy, through the countryside - as happy as if I were with a woman. Sensation
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Beg your pardon, the gunslinger said. I was wool-gathering.
~ Stephen King
I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.
~ Eric Cantona
I guess housewives like to get away from reality and enjoy the fantasy world for a bit.
~ Sanam Saeed
I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
~ Talulah Riley
I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I'm working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They're the best tools for working that I have.
~ Mark Ruffalo
I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm very laid back.
~ Maren Morris
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
We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?
~ Shannon Hale
We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.
~ Shannon Hale
Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.
~ Shannon Hale (Austenland)
Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.
~ Patti Smith
I love imagining being someone else in another time.
~ Georgina Chapman
My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.
~ Noel Gallagher
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
I was staring out the classroom window and daydreaming of adventure when I spotted the flying saucer.
~ Ernest Cline
I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.
~ Charlie Sykes
A really happy kid. I would go off on my own a lot and live in my imagination. When I got my school report back it always said, 'Lisa should try a little harder because she always seems to be in a different world from everyone else.'
~ Lisa Stansfield
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
If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.
~ David Cassidy
Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.
~ Kelly Sue DeConnick
No se piensa en nada –continuaba él–, las horas pasan. Uno recorre sin moverse países que cree estar viendo, y el pensamiento, siguiendo a la ficción, se recrea en los detalles o sigue el hilo de las aventuras. Se identifica con los personajes y parece que es uno mismo quien palpita bajo sus ropas.
~ Gustave Flaubert