Whimsey Quotes

#1. Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.

James K. Morrow

#2. Hoping never really got us anywhere, did it?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#3. I'm not a reluctant pop star. I'm very grateful and happy for everything that I have and for things when they go well. On the other hand, I've had enough of the other side to know that if it doesn't, I will survive that and life goes on.

Madonna Ciccone

#4. My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met

Raji Singh

#5. On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh;
The rocks moan wildly as it passes by;
Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand,
And not a flower adorns the dreary land.

William C. Bryant

#6. What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.

David Plotz

#7. The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down.

Ben Elton