Cautious Dreamer Gifts

"I don't want to start the year off on the wrong foot, so I'm staying bed all day."

"I dunno, looks like a trap."

What else is there to wish for?

'Some days I just feel so stuck in a rut that I wish I'd never been invented!'

That midnight hour when fleeting memories come home to roost.

Alice in Wonderland-Hare and Hatter putting Dormouse in Teapot

"Follow that dream!" (man boarding taxi)

"For dessert, absolutely no flambé!"

"Sitting here with you each day at sunset reminds me I have to get a job."

"Where am I going to college? I thought this was college."

"I know it looks fine, but let's get an engineer's report and a termite inspection just to be on the safe side."

'Just think...summer's coming, and everyday will be like Saturday morning!'

"One day she'll be a wonderful architect."

"Have a career, and then if you want to try acting, you'll have my blessing."

"Why be a princess...when I can be a queen?"

"I didn't know it was poison ivy. It didn't have any warning labels."

"It's lonely at the top...But it beats being depressed at the bottom."

'Fortunes, Impressions, Hunches, Wild Guesses'

For 29 years, Bert's strategy had been to reach retirement without making any waves,missteps or career-limiting moves. And it might have worked, too, if only he'd foreseen the fossilization risk.

"...and would you like to enroll her in pre-pre-pre-med or pre-pre-law?"

'When I grow up, I want to destroy Tokyo!'

"If you work hard enough, and find the right reality show, you can grow up to be anything you want."

Hang on, don't cross now: I can see a car coming...

Man with a Plan

'I'd like to play, but I'm afraid it might void my warranty.'

"I love when the sun glimmers on the horizon as if the world were being born anew..." "Dude."

"On reflection, it might be prudent to leave this one till last..."

"He wants the cat for his next trick. I'd be real careful about this, Eileen."

Tortoise Goes For A Swim

'We're taking baby steps with this whole social media thing until we're certain it pans out.'

'I could have become a pro golfer, but I didn't want to work weekends.'

"Measure twice. Wipe once."

'I'm pleased to be someone who thinks the glass is half-full but I still wonder who drank the first half?'

'All the stress of the job went away once I stopped giving a damn.'