Paula Pell Quotes

Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

I was too absorbed to be responsive

I'm pretty drifty.

I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

I don't read a lot of things, and if I hear things, I don't really think about them because it's useless.

She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.

The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

I'm terrifically absentminded.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.

I was really not into school. Everything was distracting to me. I would have a beat in my head or a song. I was always not paying attention, just daydreaming.

Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.

Definitely scatterbrained. I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm very laid back.

My mind was never into school, and education did not matter to me.

MIA stands for 'missing in action,' which is the way others can experience you when you're too busy multi-tasking, being pulled at by the world and by everything that's going on in your head, and, essentially, when you're too busy being busy.

I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"

I don't really dream, I space out during the day - that's one of my problems wonder off when someone's talking to me. I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.