John Lennon Quotes

My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.

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

Television is simply automated daydreaming.

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.

I'm just a bit of a dreamer, and I get really in my thoughts. I get so deep with myself at times it's almost very scary.

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

I am a bit of a daydreamer.

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

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

I'm a daydreamer.

A daydream is an evasion.

I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching something completely mindless and mundane that I don't have to follow so closely.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a kid, there wasn't a lot to do. It was fairly boring, and I think the way I either escaped the boredom or found a way to keep myself occupied was through movies and TV shows.

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.

Drivers are not good at having nothing to do.

I was very dreamy. Insular. I'm always amazed I survived adolescence at all and wasn't squashed flat by a juggernaut. Gaping, I think was my main skill. Staring out of the window.

I daydream all the time.

Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.