Top 40 Daydream Quotes

As an author, I’ve never forgotten how to daydream.

There’s a lot to love about America – freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism – all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!

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.

I daydream about Backstreet Boys accepting a Grammy one day.

Growing up, I didn’t really watch a lot of standup. I didn’t know you could be a low-energy comedian. It was something I did daydream about, but in the way you daydream about becoming the president or something – it could never happen.

I daydream about romance and stuff.

Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.

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.

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.

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.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.

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?

I used to daydream in class about what it’d be like to be a singer. It’s what I wanted to be ever since I was little, but I never knew if it’d happen or not. I was just a normal girl who was doing all the things teenagers do, but on the side, I was attending music camps and going to songwriting sessions.

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

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.

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

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.

I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I’d always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.

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.

A daydream is an evasion.

My mind is often half-sleeping, like in a daydream.

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?’

The interesting thing with fashion is that it’s really a massive daydream.

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.

‘Moonage Daydream’ is my favourite because it’s an amazing pop tune with such strange parts to it.

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.

I daydream all the time.

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 made myself a little angry before beam. That’s the best way to do beam. It’s important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it’s more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.

I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.

I’ve had times where I’ve joked, like, ‘I’m going to move to Vermont and become a painter.’ And sometimes that joke felt like, ‘Oh that’s a good idea.’ But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I’m paying attention.

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.

Everything starts as somebody’s daydream.

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.

For basically three years, I was doing ‘Catfish’ and ‘We Are Your Friends’ at the same time – it was like straddling two very long-term creative marriages. And when you’re in a long-term creative commitment, you tend to daydream and fantasize about smaller creative flings that you want to have.

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.

I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it.