Daydreaming Quote by Ian McEwan Download Open image ““The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return”” — Ian McEwan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Daydreaming Time
“I'd begun to grow weary of my constant daydreaming because, as I retreated more often into fantasy, it had become a reminder of my… — Nick Miller Copy Share Image
“Over the following days and weeks I would come to see, with mounting weariness, that this was to be the pattern of my life… — Marie Darrieussecq Copy Share Image
“I have a fond daydream of a day when, like normal, unclutterd folks, I can bring people through my house without hesitation, without secrecy,… — Eve O. Schaub Copy Share Image
“The world, moment by ordinary or agonizing moment, lies chock-full with its own clarifications and rewards. That such rewards most often go unnoticed keeps… — Robert Wrigley Copy Share Image
“I took a walk this morning. And as I did, I wished that an awakening world would see opportunities in this day that it… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“ONLY THE DAY DAWNS TO WHICH WE ARE AWAKE,IF WE ARE TO GRASP THE REALITY OF OUR LIFE WHILE WE HAVE IT,WE WILL NEED… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I wish my conscience would come alive during the day, when the distractions of daytime life help obscure those sharp, prodding thoughts.” — Sara J. Henry Copy Share Image
“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they are wise… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“It is shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Once, on a walk by a river- Eskdale in low reddish sunlight, with a dusting of snow- his daughter quoted to him an opening… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it's one of those cases of a microcosm giving you the whole world. Like a spode dinner plate. Or a single cell. Or,… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“On Chesil Beach he could have called out to Florence, he could have gone after her. He did not know, or would not have… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman 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 is an… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot.… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
“... stability prevents daydreaming about 'what if...' and inserts us totally into what we are doing, causing us to live with a new intensity.” — Paul Wilkes Copy Share Image
Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences. — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
When the writing is really working, I think there is something like dreaming going on. I don't know how to draw the line between… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind… — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
“Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however,… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll listen to a song so much that ideas start to form out of daydreaming. It's as if I'm reverse-scoring the track and building… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
