Daydreaming Quotes - Page 2

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.

Daydreaming subverts the world.

I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

I get the most joy in life out of music.

If your vision doesn't cost you something, it's a daydream.

There was always a unique Beirut sound, it was always there, and so this time I just dove straight into that, instead of daydreaming and wandering.

I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.

It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.

We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God...He's not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking, uninvolved. Count on it, God intrudes in glorious and myriad ways.

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth--but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.

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.

Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.