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… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I used to say to my dad, 'How did you and Mom stay married for all this time?' and he'd say, 'Two… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
She liked to imagine him stealing a glimpse of her over the backyard fence, proudly watching his strange daughter daydream under the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. I really do think that… — James Duval Copy Share Image
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky,… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
“I pictured Locke's heart shot through with an arrow and then shook my head to get rid of the image. It wasn't… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream,… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I can zero in on a vision of where I want to be in the future. I can see it so clearly… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
I daydream too. I visualise. I think ahead, I can do it now, sitting here. I think ahead to the walk-in, I… — Conor McGregor Copy Share Image
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time.… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“She imagined herself whirling breathlessly beneath the flashing lights of some impossibly chic Manhattan disco. Suddenly, a hand touches her arm. She… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“Now that she had the diagnosis to explain her sense of reality, she sorted some of the chaotic jumble of thoughts and… — Joan Frances Casey Copy Share Image
What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You are daydreaming about the future because you have not tasted the present. Start tasting the present. Find out a few moments… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners… — Dave Navarro Copy Share Image
Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image