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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
Daydream. Because you can't accomplish what you've never fully imagined. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
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I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of 'Daydream' in a lot of elevators. -- John Sebastian
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity. -- Gaston Bachelard
Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write. -- Neil Gaiman
A daydream is an evasion. -- Thomas Merton
Everything starts as somebody's daydream. -- Larry Niven
As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream. -- Neil Gaiman
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. -- Steven Wright
I daydream all the time, and I like that quality. -- Shirley Henderson
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. -- Kurt Vonnegut
My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream. -- Robert Wilson
I'm in a position where I can do many things most people just daydream about. -- Ewan McGregor
I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. -- Gore Vidal
As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me. -- Christine Keeler
I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention. -- Greg Maddux
I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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
I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas. -- Brandon Flowers
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
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
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
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
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
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! -- Laurie Helgoe
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone. -- Steven Spielberg
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
There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic to who I am. So it was a natural choice for me to try to pursue writing as a career. Truthfully, though, I still daydream about how fun it would be to ride on the back of a garbage truck. -- Sarah Addison Allen
When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls' rooms on TV and they'd all be pink. I didn't have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella's. -- Nicki Minaj
Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream. -- Taylor Swift
A goal without an action plan is a daydream. -- Nathaniel Branden
If your vision doesn't cost you something, it's a daydream. -- John C. Maxwell
She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream. -- Toni Cade Bambara
The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream -- Amy Harmon
Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play. -- Patch Adams
Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death. -- Mike Dickenson
The difference between a vision and a daydream is the audacity to act. -- Steven Furtick
If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides. -- Francis Bacon
I am a forward thinker with nostalgia. I dream of the past, and daydream of the future. -- Jarod Kintz
I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day. -- Ian Curtis
The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. -- Gore Vidal
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare. -- Jim Sorensen
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I am a daydreamer.. I daydream a lot, and thus is when my wicked imagination emerges to bleed upon my paper... -- Jamie Edson
You are my reality, fantasy, daydream, fairytale, music, more than the princess in Cinderella; you are much more than a traditional myth. -- Delano Johnson
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
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
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
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
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
Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities. -- Ryan Lilly
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
They can fly and they howl, they slaughter depression and headaches, they daydream like gangbanging daffodils, orchids and cherry blossoms grasping mauve toffee clouds, they breastfeed laughter. -- Laura Gentile
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks. -- Seamus Heaney
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
I'm a total failure at housewifery. I always have been, 'cause I daydream too much. If I start doing the dishes at one in the afternoon, I'll still be there at six in the evening. -- Patti Smith

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