Whims And Fancies Quotes

#1. I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

Thomas Merton

#2. It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.

Kit Williams

#3. Then the dark began to go in smooth, bright shapes, like it always does, even when Caddy says that I have been asleep.

William Faulkner

#4. Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

Lee Hsien Loong

#5. I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars.

Will Christopher Baer

#6. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. Their whims, fancies, and ambitions are thwarted at every step, but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their own food, be it foul or clean.

James Allen

#7. Human orgasm, firecracker. Vampire orgasm, atomic blast.

Kresley Cole

#8. Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

Russell Means

#9. I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies-thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. I asked him for a cigarette and he obliged, lighting it for me without a word, without meeting my eye. The quiet ones do this. They exert control by giving nothing out, and it's this blankness that makes them unpredictable, as dangerous as the loud ones are obvious.

Vu Tran

#11. I think when you look at our team, you have to say that the weak point is probably still the driver.

Tony Stewart

#12. We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids ...

George Sand

#13. I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

Maureen Dowd

#14. Love can be a dangerous thing...

Diana Reeves

#15. If we were truly created by God, then why do we still occasionally bite the insides of our own mouths?

Dara O Briain