Quotes About Whimsical Things

#1. Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.

William Stone

#2. Whimsical people were the type who got run over by cars without anybody really noticing or caring that much beyond the damage to the vehicle, which was usually minimal anyway, whimsical folk being kind

John Connolly

#3. Life really is a most whimsical thing. While we consistently try and chart its route, it goes ahead and takes its own turn. Just follow the paths it lays out before you. And you may find, at some sudden turn, a miracle waiting just for you.

Jyoti Arora

#4. But these people were judged very stupid by their friends. Was not Jonathan Strange known to be precisely the sort of whimsical, contradictory person who would publish against himself?

Susanna Clarke

#5. These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north.

Karen Marie Moning

#7. Flik's Fun Fair: Whether or not you have little ones, take a few moments to stroll through this whimsical corner of DCA.

Leslie Le Mon

#8. Flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender skin ...
(the frightful plight tale)

Muse

#9. In all small things be honest and the big ones will take care of themselves.

Rolf Margenau

#10. At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

Drew Barrymore

#11. I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

Mary Ellen Mark

#12. When I die," said dear and whimsical old Doctor Pycroft, "I shall have a bell hung on my head-stone, with an inscription asking the compassionate passer-by to ring it long and loud. And I shan't get up.

Reginald L. Hine

#13. Josh: But colored lights are whimsical. I mean they're nostalgic
Lara Jean: Whimsical, Josh?

Jenny Han

#14. ... some of us had built whole careers - pointing out how unfair and whimsical and chaotic the entertainment business was, how it rarely rewarded the truly talented. None of us could see how it never rewarded the inert

Patton Oswalt

#15. Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

Maira Kalman

#16. Because of our love for each other, I understand just a little more how God has pursued me in creative and whimsical ways, ways the initially did not get my attention. Nevertheless, He wouldn't stop. That's what love does - it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end.

Bob Goff

#17. The impetus he had gained from the whimsical seraph known as Syoshant had been short-lived

Soroosh Shahrivar

#18. (Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#19. I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

Erin Morgenstern

#20. There was no whimsical 'sip of wine at Thanksgiving' for us kids while we were still teenagers. This was the Clinton era, and my parents were already worried about the moral deterioration of the country.

Mindy Kaling

#21. We must not, by any whimsical conceits supposed to be adapted to the altering fashions of the times, overturn the established law of the land: it descended to us as a sacred charge, and it is our duty to preserve it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. Ahhhh ... I see. I think. Perhaps I don't. It may be easier to grasp if you presented it in a musical format. A lyrical song or two, accompanied by a whimsical dance to interpret the words.

Nicole Sager

#23. A whimsical choice, perhaps a dangerous choice, but a shadow should bear some resemblance to the shape that cast it.

Brent Weeks

#24. I always try to have a fun nail. It's something whimsical that you can pull off anytime.

Gracie Gold

#25. I love Fredorator and what they produce and the storytelling of 'Adventure Time' ... There's such a dark, adult underlying theme underneath the whimsical, magical children's aspect of their storytelling element.

Michelle Phan

#26. Life is so whimsical, for some people better than others

Miguel El Portugues

#27. She told herself there had been nothing outside, nothing peering in at her from the darkness.

Nothing at all.

Clara Diane Thompson

#28. You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Mary Oliver

#29. Life has a whimsical way of kicking you in the throat. I find it to
be one huge cosmic joke at our expense, only nobody is laughing
but the forces that be - given that they are even a wee bit human.

Lori Goldson

#30. And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crockery was a mutual interview that might decide whether or not they would own a common set of those items some time in the whimsical future.

Vikram Seth

#31. Then the earth grew old, its landscapes mellowing and showing signs of age, its ways becoming whimsical and strange in the manner of a man in his last years ...

Michael Moorcock

#32. ...books were portals into worlds she yearned to know, whether they be ponderous volumes crammed with accumulated knowledge or whimsical fantasies featuring magical creatures.

Kerry Alan Denney

#33. This area produces a protein given the whimsical name Sonic Hedgehog,

Brian Switek

#34. If that Alpha wanted to dash off into the jungle with a mysterious goddess on her back on a whimsical evening run in the middle of a prospective battle, they would go with her.

Gail Carriger

#35. Mommy loves you more than all the magic in the world.

Maureen Jane Shigeno

#36. I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.

Roger McGough

#37. And a whimsical ceramic sugar bowl shaped like an octopus.

Christa Faust

#38. This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.

Arthur Conan Doyle