Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

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

When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.

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

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

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

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

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

I have always had trouble paying attention. When I was supposed to be at work, I'd be doodling. But then when I was home, trying to draw, I would be working on math problems. I never end up doing exactly what I should be doing at at any given time.

I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.

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

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

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

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'm pretty drifty.

There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.