Top 100 Daydream Quotes
#1. I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
Imelda May
#2. The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act.
Steven Furtick
#3. Most people who daydream of transforming themselves into some vicious beast and going about tearing people's throats out, dismembering them, disfiguring them and perhaps devouring them tend mainly to dwell upon how much fun it would be and generally neglect the practicalities of the situation.
Roger Zelazny
#4. I was trying to daydream but my mind kept wandering.
Steven Wright
#5. I had a dream about you. You were lost in a daydream, when I walked in and you began screaming. But I know that could never actually happen. In real life I only enter people's nightmares.
Bauvard
#6. Your expression dog paddles the entire
meeting but your daydream
ricochets between the prospect of quitting
and painting your room.
Lori Lamothe
#7. If only i could get that under control then i feel like i could stay here a long time, watching the days leaking into the nights, swilling over the buildings, bleeding back again.
I could lie and not think of anything but ways to describe the sky, the clouds, the light.
Gwendoline Riley
#8. It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.
Gordon Getty
#9. Maybe in a few months I can start to daydream if we are still top of the league. That is the main one for us.
John Terry
#10. I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.
Shandy L. Kurth
#12. Philippe liked to daydream with his eyes wide open and I could often tell from looking at the changing intensity of the colours reflected there and the faintest of smiles animating his lips that he was in a world of his own that brought him great comfort in ways I could never understand
Myriam J.A. Chancy
#13. I'm a figment of your imagination. You're only imagining that I'm sitting here eating with you. Because I'm just so freaking awesome that people daydream about being seen with me.
Jennifer Estep
#14. A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
Andy Weir
#15. I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my childhood, but by then, we'd both outgrown the only relationship we could have had to each other. I was over 30 by the time I met him again and no longer needed a father.
Mona Simpson
#16. 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
#17. Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
Nikita Khrushchev
#18. The politics of the exile are fever,
revenge, daydream,
theater of the aging convalescent.
You wait in the wings and rehearse.
You wait and wait.
Marge Piercy
#19. If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
Francis Bacon
#20. I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream, and I usually come up with some ideas ... It's a very irresponsible life. The only decisions I make are about the notes I'm writing.
Hans Zimmer
#21. It'd been nice to daydream, but destructive too.
Anyta Sunday
#22. 'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
Gore Vidal
#23. The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
Karen Elson
#25. I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.
Clint Eastwood
#26. What am I going to do?"
"What?"
"I don't have anything else to daydream about. Now what am I going to do?
Hawk felt his gut get tight, his chest swell and something stung his throat.
"I'll find a way to keep you occupied, baby.
Kristen Ashley
#27. Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
Gaston Bachelard
#28. She had never had a daydream that dreamed itself, like nightmares. That crawled out of her brain like a creature of the dark. A daymare.
Caroline B. Cooney
#29. 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
#30. The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies.
Jonathan Gottschall
#31. People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?'
Davy Jones
#32. I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of 'Daydream' in a lot of elevators.
John Sebastian
#33. Sasha? What is it?" My face slipped off my palm and jerked my shoulders toward the table. Blinking away the daydream, I tore my eyes away from the balmy day peeking out of the window. My boyfriend, Jared, stared at me out of a cute, boyish face, his eyebrows quirked quizzically.
K.F. Breene
#34. I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.
Robert Greene
#35. Someone tried to kill me, and I'm going swimming. I'm going swimming, because it doesn't matter. I'm going swimming, because I don't matter. I'm going swimming, because that's what Claires do. We swim and we daydream and we read and we wait for someone to care, and they never, ever, ever do.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#36. Love is a flicker. It's that hidden desire. It's the words you're afraid to say. It's stolen glances. It's the passive-aggressive hints. It's the mixed signal. It's the first brush against his hand. It's the first time you daydream about her.
Nessie Q.
#37. The sternest commissar and the wildest hippie both share the same daydream: that a thing can be worth other than people are willing to give for it.
P. J. O'Rourke
#38. The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream
Amy Harmon
#39. It is a hard daydream to let go of - that one has friends.
Kurt Vonnegut
#40. The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.
Susan Sontag
#41. I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#42. Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It's the source of infinite creativity.
Deepak Chopra
#43. I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.
Richard Brautigan
#44. She lived so much inside the balloon of her desires that she didn't want the needles of reality puncturing her carefully crafted, multi-coloured fragile daydream palloncino.
Paullina Simons
#45. As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
Neil Gaiman
#46. Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind.
Edward Hirsch
#47. It is not the path that you have trouble finding. You knew your path since your first daydream. It's courage you're searching for - courage to trust yourself and stop searching for a travel partner who knows better than you where to go. And courage is only built in action.
Vironika Tugaleva
#48. I'm in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about.
Ewan McGregor
#49. Cause darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream
Taylor Swift
#50. Writing a story is like getting to share a piece of every daydream you've ever had.
Giuseppe Bianco
#51. How often do the poor daydream of a better life? Plenty, no doubt, and where does it get them? It is the poor who begin with a daydream and realize at some point that they have to get up, roll their sleeves, and start doing something about those day dreams who succeed. And there are many who have.
Stephen Richards
#52. You know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.
William Joyce
#53. I daydream often and sometimes my daydreams interrupt my daydreams. So I write to remember them. If I didn't write, I think my mind would explode from an overload of fantasy and weirdness. To the annoyance of my friends and family, my characters sometimes become a part of my world.
Susan Griscom
#54. 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.
Lauren Willig
#55. They used to complain at school that I looked out of the window for long periods of time - that sums up my life. I like to look out the window, do nothing, daydream.
Ritchie Blackmore
#56. The Infernal Devices began with a daydream of Jem and Tessa on Blackfriars Bridge, and I think it is fitting that it ends there too.
Cassandra Clare
#57. She lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields.
Nora Roberts
#58. Every daydream that involves the past sports in its hatband a ticket to the grave.
Tom Robbins
#60. It's important to daydream... It's important to let your mind travel.
Mette Jakobsen
#61. I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.
Lena Horne
#62. Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe
Put your ray gun to my head
Press your space face close to mine, love
Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!
David Bowie
#63. I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.
Sam Rockwell
#64. Not many women got to live out the daydream of women - to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#65. I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written ... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.
Taylor Swift
#66. I've always wanted to be in comedy ... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.
Anna Akana
#67. Writer advice ... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write.
Neil Gaiman
#68. Visualization: daydreaming with a purpose.
Pen
#69. I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.
Ian Curtis
#70. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
Bram Stoker
#71. Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality."
Excerpt from novel You Can't Escape Love by Grace Willows
Grace Willows
#72. If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.
Robert Duvall
#73. Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that.
Conor Oberst
#74. I've always liked quiet people: You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world.
John Green
#75. If your vision doesn't cost you something, it's a daydream.
John C. Maxwell
#76. Let yourself daydream sometimes ... Allow spontaneous images to come and go. Capture one in a sketch. These images express connections with your inner self.
Nita Leland
#77. In the business world, I did fairly well, but wasn't happy. A bout of sciatica put me flat on my back. All I could do was read, listen to my mother's stories about the Sandovals, and daydream: a return to self. My writing career had begun.
Sandra Cisneros
#78. I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the 'A-Team' van or something.
Ernest Cline
#79. Personally I have a great deal of fun doing it, which is an inspiration in itself really. It really allows me to daydream, as in "schooldream" which is daydreaming with ink and get paid for it which is something I don't say to schools when I go in and talk to them.
Jasper Fforde
#80. Before Cam, music had been an escape, passion, a daydream, love, an impossibility.
Lauren Kate
#81. Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Larry Niven
#82. A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.
Jim Sorensen
#84. That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream, and a lot of times I'm walking around with these pictures in my head for awhile before I start writing.
Dan Chaon
#85. When you're reading Chekov, you're in this world that he's created. I never would have created that world. I don't know anything about that time period or that setting or those groups of people or what those experiences were, but oh my gosh, it's amazing to daydream on it and put yourself there.
Brit Marling
#86. I sometimes daydream about becoming somebody else. Anybody else. Not me. I imagine how I might lose myself, my old self.
James Preller
#87. 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
#88. I can zero in on a vision of where I want to be in the future. I can see it so clearly in front of me, when I daydream, it's almost a reality. Then I get this easy feeling, and I don't have to be uptight to get there because I already feel like I'm there, that it's just a matter of time.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#89. Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.
Patch Adams
#90. Fiction writers shouldn't take themselves too seriously - we're just daydreamers who daydream better than most.
Flavia Ida
#91. She needed the good mood, the way you need sleep after an all-nighter, the way you daydream of throwing yourself into bed.
Gillian Flynn
#92. I had everything that I needed, but every morning when I woke up, it just seemed easier to stay in bed and daydream rather than to live my dream.
Hannah Hart
#93. I hope I'm not turning into that girl, the one who daydreams about a guy she can never have.
Kasie West
#94. Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.
Gaston Bachelard
#95. When our purpose is to seek God and to discover His will for us, daydreaming is right and acceptable. But when our inclination is to spend time daydreaming over what we have already been told to do, it is unacceptable and God's blessing is never on it.
Oswald Chambers
#96. Before or After? Fern:
Before, anticipation is usually better than the real thing.
Ambrose: After. The real thing, when done right, is always better
than a daydream. Fern wouldn't know, would she? She let that one
slide.
Amy Harmon
#97. My favorite daydream, it was this: I would be reading a book alone in my room, and no one would ever, ever interrupt me.
Ann Tyler
#98. But we have to understand why we do what we do, not just do what we do. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Pinball Clemons
#99. Struggling with my finances, nudging toward 50, I sometimes daydream about being happily married to a matching frugaholic husband in a matching Christmas-red tracksuit with matching walkie-talkies as we troll Ralphs, excitedly comparing triple coupons.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#100. Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.
Mike Dickenson