Top 67 Quotes About Whimsy
#1. Lacking stamina, it became a withering whimsy of a flirtation.
Lisa Genova
#2. As might be expected, he was given to bouts of very purposeful ignorance, and tended to pass over the harsher truths of human nature in favor of those that could be romanticized by whimsy and imagination.
Eleanor Catton
#3. My personal decorating style is cozy, romantic and a little rustic, with a sense of whimsy.
Kimberly Schlapman
#4. Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
Khalil
#5. We must leave Christmas to be what it is, for to reduce it to the stuff of myth and whimsy is take the single and sole hope of a dying humanity and obliterate it. And I would contend that such an action is insanity of the greatest sort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#6. We shouldn't be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.
Donald Miller
#7. With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro's true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to political outrage without missing a beat, The Troublesome Amputee is a powerful collection of pitch-black verse.
Jeremy Robert Johnson
#8. How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!
Rick Yancey
#9. Make no investment in the whimsy of others.
MW Kennard
#10. Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don't make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.
Ellen Gallagher
#11. Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.
Adam Mansbach
#12. You want to hear a riddle, you say? I know a very good one. It begins, why is a raven like a writing desk?'
She lifted her chin. 'Have you gone mad, Hatta? I can't seem to tell.'
'They are both so full of poetry, you see. Darkness and whimsy, nightmares and song.
Marissa Meyer
#13. When I am old and addled I will make coronets like Cad, that have nothing to do with history, but represent the whimsy and cobwebs in my brain.
Sherri Baldy
#14. Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
Bob Goff
#15. This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.
Pete Hamill
#16. There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.
Robert Mankoff
#17. Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.
Tom Robbins
#18. His soul was susceptible to god's whimsy, just as his body was susceptible to any opportunistic thing that might hurt it. If he'd known how to pray, Six would have asked God to take his gift away.
Ayana Mathis
#19. Be fun! I don't like homes or rooms that don't have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are, and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it's the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.
Bryan Batt
#20. I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi ... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.
Ron Carlson
#21. His stride was long, tall, and proud. He wore a mask of proprietary disinterest, as though everything before his eyes belonged to him and his whimsy. He looked arrogant.
He fit right in.
S.G. Night
#22. My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.
Mindy Kaling
#23. There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I'm tempted to turn it down all the time. I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does.
Bob Goff
#25. Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It's about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That's what I want my life to be all about - full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
Bob Goff
#26. ...a totally dried noose for one is to another an integrated text adept at the cards that ruin whimsy...
Peter Ganick
#27. Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.
Bob Goff
#28. Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy.
Niki De St. Phalle
#29. Despite Tub's eye wound he never so much as stumbled, and I felt for the first time that we knew and understood each other; I sensed in him a desire to improve himself, which perhaps was whimsy or wishful thinking on my part, but such are the musings of the traveling man. The
Patrick DeWitt
#30. More than whimsy, joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.
Margaret Feinberg
#31. The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia.
Graeme Base
#32. The world begins again. Humanity owes its existence to a bit of cosmic whimsy. To a rock. It
Rick Yancey
#33. And, as Rhonda told the story, she thought: this is how the past gets passed down. This is how memories are made. Half-invented, embellished, given a touch of whimsy.
Jennifer McMahon
#34. You do. Because of who you are. What you are. One half brimming with dark curiosities and a fierce appetite for all things mad. But the other half whimsy and light - filled with courage and loyalty.
A.G. Howard
#36. Songs are built by whimsy, faulty memory, and free association.
Sting
#38. Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name) that results in manifestation/s. But these patterns of thought can have so much to do with whimsy that magic often is jokes.
Helen Oyeyemi
#39. The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.
Suzanne Palmieri
#40. Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.
Jewel
#41. Every girl needs a bit of whimsy to remind her that life is a game and it's all about having fun.
Candace Havens
#42. I always like hair being a little messy because I think there's something appealing about the whimsy of putting on a gown with any hair or make-up - just stepping into it, and you're ready.
Blake Lively
#43. If someone opens a glorious Scotch or a bottle of wine, it's no more than a whimsy, but after nearly 40 years I'm used to it. I don't find it difficult not being drunk when other people are, but I get uncomfortable because they're uncomfortable with where I am.
Martin Shaw
#44. We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and which discoloured all experience to its own shade.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#45. I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.
Judith Leiber
#46. When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will 'give way' and it is I who will 'fall.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#47. Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.
Thomas M. Disch
#48. In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.
Danny DeVito
#49. The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.
Adam Johnson
#50. Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style both seductive and sly. Any one of Doug Watson's first collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite, can mend a broken world.
Christine Schutt
#51. I think a band that doesn't have a sense of humor can come up with their own take on whimsy.Kind of lead-footed and ham-handed, but I think just all the better for that.
Michael McKean
#52. In harmony there is nothing strange. And life is a vast harmony. I've understood this. But, you see- the moulded whimsy of a frieze on a portico keeps us from recognizing, sometimes, the symmetry of the whole ...
Vladimir Nabokov
#53. Romance is like maintaining a car. If you do a good job of it, you will always have a dependable quiet ride.
T.R. Wallace
#54. For millennia philosophers and saints have tried to reason out a logical scheme for the universe ... until Hilda came along and demonstrated that the universe is not logical but whimsical, its structure depending solely on the dreams and nightmares of non-logical dreamers.
Robert A. Heinlein
#55. You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina!
James Thurber
#56. To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave - that was magical.
Ransom Riggs
#57. There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.
John Burnham Schwartz
#58. To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and brave and good person I knew him to be - *that* was magical.
Ransom Riggs
#59. Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves
Lewis Carroll
#60. Having the rug pulled from under one, and flying magic carpets -- cousin events?
Leslie Miklosy
#61. There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things ...
William Henry Hudson
#62. A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.
John Burnham Schwartz
#63. Driving home I switch on the radio and one of those old Motown voices comes on and reaches my heart.
Ellen Van Neerven
#64. Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon
John Geddes
#65. Will you treat people who make you miserable, as prison guards, or travel agents?
Leslie Miklosy
#66. Sun-struck,
stuck in mid tropic strut, it sometimes stands
as if considering how to cool avian plastic,
dive into the mown lagoon of lawn;
how take flight on dayglow flap-
doodle wings, no matter
if it is ball-bald going nowhere fast.
Joyce Thomas
#67. You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
Mary Oliver
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