Quotes About Whim

#1. Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling
for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with a factory. This is the way world ends, not with a whim but a banker.

Marian McPartland

#2. He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or very stupid.

Galt Niederhoffer

#3. But now I feel like a receptacle -- an empty vessel to be filled at his whim.

E.L. James

#4. Read at whim! read at whim!

Randall Jarrell

#5. I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.

Tim Walker

#6. My wife has a whim of iron

Oliver Herford

#7. Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of your approval. I'm a cat person. I like a little aloofness in my pets and my writing.

Alden Bell

#8. In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

Daniel Clowes

#9. Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

Stephen Breyer

#10. I've seen him drop girlfriends and friends on a whim and never so much as think about looking back. It's not that he's cruel; he just doesn't realize what he's doing.

Tammy Blackwell

#11. Later it would occur to him that a new life - to be a new man - would require him to take chances, to act on whim

John Galavan

#12. Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers
obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Edward Abbey

#13. You answer to none but the whim of your own black heart.

Joshua Winning

#14. The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

Douglas Adams

#15. Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#16. Why, you make anyone think that loving is a thing that can be done and undone, and put on and put off at a mere whim.

Thomas Hardy

#17. The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones.

Theo Paphitis

#18. I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.

Nicholas Nixon

#19. Yet again, isn't there something terrible in randomness - the idea that at the very bottom of its calculations, real depravity has no master plan of any kind, it's just a dreamy whim that slides out of people when they are trapped or bored or too lazy to analyze their own mania.

Aeschylus

#20. I think I'll stay in pieces. I can shift them, rearrange, depending on the day, depending on what I need to be. I can change on a whim and be so many different girls and none of them has to be me.

Katja Millay

#21. The feeling of love comes and goes on a whim; you can't control it. But the action of love is something you can do, regardless of how you are feeling.

Russ Harris

#22. Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.

Crispian Mills

#23. On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.

Michelle Yeoh

#24. What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.

Denham Sutcliffe

#25. My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.

F. Sionil Jose

#26. Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and fancy, to the bed, to the pillow, the tiny white tablet. And these choose for us.

Tim O'Brien

#27. I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.

Michael Keaton

#28. When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

Terry Pratchett

#29. I do things on a whim.

Ruth Wilson

#30. The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

Hilaire Belloc

#31. You should be ready to take advantage of all the opportunities that arise. Accept every invitation. Follow each whim. Some will work out, others won't. But don't give up.

Joanne Guidoccio

#32. private philanthropy is no substitution for hard-fought battles over labour laws and social security, in part because philanthropy can be retracted on a whim, while elected officials, at least in theory, have citizens to answer to.

Linsey McGoey

#33. Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

Jean-Georges Noverre

#34. Sometimes you have to let those you love chase the fucking wind on a whim because it's the only way they can free themselves from the nightmares within.

K. Bromberg

#35. No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.

James Fenton

#36. Sometimes the people don't know what's best for them ... Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That's what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.

Patrick Ness

#37. Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

Scott Simon

#38. The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

Alexander Theroux

#39. We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

Allen Lacy

#40. You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.

Scott Lynch

#41. Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.

Jonah Goldberg

#42. I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

Margaret Atwood

#43. The whims of youth break all the rules.

Homer

#44. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.

Anonymous

#45. The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.

Peter L. Bernstein

#46. Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

Pietro Aretino

#47. To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim.

Reza Negarestani

#48. It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.

Cassandra Clare

#49. She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who'd been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.

Dennis Lehane

#50. I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them.

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

#51. I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

Martin Parr

#52. Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

Duane Michals

#53. It's easy to feel like the bunny rabbi frozen in terror. And it's easy to feel like one of the fire balloons, at the whim of the wind, either rising up out of sight or burning down. Blow one direction or another.

Ava Dellaira

#54. Justice might well prevail in the end, but ordinary people like me had no guarantee of surviving that long. We might get killed on the whim of some serial killer first.

Kouhei Kadono

#55. Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at whim. - Sabine Strohem

Nick Bantock

#56. Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#57. Love isn't something to be given on whim, or shelved when it isn't convenient. Love is gift, a promise, and a belief in another person. If you treat it as such, it will fulfill you always

Brian MacLearn

#58. It wasn't unreasonable to imagine her father, having noticed the mysterious ruins, deciding on a whim to investigate them. 'Like Don Quixote and his golden helmet of Mambrino,' she thought, looking at his yellow hat. 'Off on a silly quest.

Liz Braswell

#59. On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one's body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.

Jim Carroll

#60. I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

Kabir Bedi

#61. Paradise is no whim.
It takes time and trust,
You see.

Scott Hastie

#62. You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

Richard Roeper

#63. Maybe you're getting tired of existing on the whim of people.

Neil Gaiman

#64. An hour in her presence, and he was ready to hit his knees, submit to her every whim.

Kelly Moran

#65. Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

John Robbins

#66. We no longer need fur for warmth and protection. There are plenty of textiles that provide that today. It's pure whim and vanity to choose to wear fur. It shows a level of ignorance or lack of concern that reflects poorly on the wearer.

Tim Gunn

#67. It's true; I have a skill and it's ... it has not related to acting, it's not related to auditions, it's not related to studios, not related to public whim. It's whether I'm funny or not and whether I can entertain people.

Tim Allen

#68. nervously. "I have never dared to concentrate as hard as I can for fear of the damage I might do. I'm to the point where a mere whim is a blockbuster.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#69. Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

George W. Bush

#70. I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

Kylie Minogue

#71. Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one's dreams will be called pretentious. So let's indulge the whim and see where it takes us.

Fennel Hudson

#72. Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national resources. All these kids are being educated to be Americans, not citizens of Minneapolis or San Francisco.

Jonathan Kozol

#73. The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance.

Lupita Nyong'o

#74. News' is often a polite way of saying 'editor's whim.

Tom Rachman

#75. I like to see candidates who are busy finding what they are good at and what they enjoy. I call it being busy with a purpose - WHIM

Garrett Miller

#76. In about 9th grade, an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school, so I did on a whim. I got accepted. Then I got accepted at the Julliard School, and by then, I was serious about it.

Ving Rhames

#77. You should assume that your networks are plagued with malevolent entities ready to unleash their ire on a whim.

Sam Newman

#78. Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.

Ivan Illich

#79. Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Caroline Knapp

#80. Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Aslan Maskhadov

#81. It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

Sam Hunt

#82. I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#83. Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

Richard Le Gallienne

#84. Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man

Rex Harrison

#85. She'd never been any kind of camper, never had been good at relieving a full bladder on a whim. Never had quite figured out that squat; it seemed like she'd always wet her right foot.

Robyn Carr

#86. My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

Rachel Hunter

#87. You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#88. We live in a world that seems increasingly beyond our control. Our livelihoods are at the whim of globalized forces. The problems that we face - economic, environmental, and so on - cannot be solved by our individual actions.

Robert Greene

#89. The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim.

David Ignatius

#90. They are just a strange whim, kink of nature, deviation that doesn't seem to exist but is encountered every day.

Igor Eliseev

#91. Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

Groucho Marx

#92. You left this house whenever you wanted to, and came back at your whim, and you never once thought that your wife would be the one to leave.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#93. Only once had she asked the question: Why? And she had known that there would never be an answer. Her feet were a whim of nature. It would have been silly to look for causes or to rebel. She would not bicker with fate. Still, it hurt.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#94. As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury.

Asif Ali Zardari

#95. This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

James Reston

#96. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Ann Dillard

#97. No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

Winston S. Churchill

#98. God does not step in and adjust minute details on a whim.

Karen Marie Moning

#99. The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed, the phrase might be more aptly put: Demand and Surplus.

Geoffrey Wood

#100. Susan adored her and worshiped her style, / Loved her pronouncements of "perfect" and "vile," / Loved the sheer whim, the madcap willy-nillyness / And how deeply seriously Nonnie took her own silliness

David Rakoff