You get ideas from daydreaming...

You get ideas from daydreaming.  You get ideas from being bored.  You get ideas all the time.  The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

~Neil Gaiman~

When ideas float in our mind w...

When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it.

~John Locke~

Under every full moon, a woolg...

Under every full moon, a woolgathering world idles.

~Lorraine Skylark~

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious...

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

~Luis Buñuel~

Thought is the labor of the in...

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

~Victor Hugo~

Television is simply automated...

Television is simply automated day-dreaming.

~Lee Lovinger~

Sometimes, in a summer morning...

Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.

~Henry David Thoreau~

Sit in reverie and watch the c...

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~

Reverie is not a mind vacuum.&...

Reverie is not a mind vacuum.  It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

~Gaston Bachelard~

People don't come to church fo...

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.~

One man's daydreaming is anoth...

One man's daydreaming is another man's day.

~Grey Livingston~

He does not need opium. ...

He does not need opium.  He has the gift of reverie.

~Anais Nin~

It is a good idea to be alone ...

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

~James Douglas~

If you've never stared off in ...

If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.

~Adam Duritz, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," performed by Counting Crows~

I was trying to daydream, but ...

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

~Steven Wright~

How many of our daydreams woul...

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts~

All religions will pass, but t...

All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance.

~V.V. Rozanov~

A daydream is a meal at which ...

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

~Wystan Hugh Auden ~