Whimsical Quotations

I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.

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

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

I've spent half my life on planes. I have a lot of love for New Zealand, though. That is where the really arty, whimsical side of the family resided - in Hobbitland.

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

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

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

Today it’s economically crucial and personally rewarding to create something that is also beautiful, whimsical, or emotionally engaging.

Mr. President, that whimsical English professor, Dr. Parkinson, should formulate another Parkinson's law relating to the public debt since it so closely parallels his law on bureaucratic growth. Just as spending will always reach and overtake revenues so the public debt will constantly pierce the ceiling and finally go into orbit.

My first encounter with Dawson's work was the totems. One of the things you read about William is how his wife called his work 'toys.' At one time I collected a lot of toys, and the totems appeal to me for their whimsical quality.

My daughter is a very adventurous eater. I'm not the guy who sits around lamenting that all my kid will eat it is Tater Tots and chicken nuggets. With my kid, it's more a capricious and whimsical decision-making.

To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm.

I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

My wife represents the tasteful, I?m the tacky, ... We feed off each other?s ideas about what merchandise to include, and I am always in the back thinking of whimsical things to make.

To me this millipede is more the kind of thing that Tom is famous for. It is a little weird, it's cute, and it's a little threatening, this giant bug that could eat you -- but it's also wearing little shoes and a bowler hat. It's whimsical and frightening at the same time.

We offer a lot of selection. It is not a traditional store. It leans towards trendy, whimsical and up-to-date. We have fun clothes for fashionable kids.

I've decided to be a dull, morose bore at these press meetings. It's the only safe course. You give me no choice. I tell a joke and you convert it into an international incident. I coin a whimsical term and you make it appear I am at odds with the President. I indulge in some polite banter and you interpret it as a split in the Party.

The scope of this almost whimsical action by the commission is unbelievable.

As a kid, I loved the whimsical Superman and Batman stuff, and as a teenager, Marvel was more angsty, and that appealed to me. Marvel dealt with more stuff I could relate to as a teenager.

A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show.

The whimsical side of my dad really comes through in this movie.

It's the whole gambit. There are shorts, some are funny, some are sad, some are serious and some are whimsical and light. So you see a little bit of everything.

It sort of looks like a place with the background filled in by buildings. And a lot of people say that it has a Dr. Seuss look to them. To me, they are just whimsical looking with colorful human archetypes that you can sort of read into them.

I didn't used to be so against bonds. They're getting to be too much of a crutch. It's gotten to where any time someone comes up with a whimsical project, they go sell bonds.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

The first books I remember having an impact on me when I was a kid were L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' books, which were much stranger than the movie: at once rather whimsical and really dark.

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

You must not ever stop being whimsical.

One who has loved truly can never lose entirely.