Whimsical Quotes

• For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

  Graeme Murphy

  Art, Essence, Important

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• I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard

  Taylor Swift

  Real, World, Fantasy

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

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Responsibility, Giving

  Mary Oliver (1995). “Blue Pastures”, Harcourt

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• Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Tyrants, Different Faces

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.80, Ravenio Books

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• It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stars, Night, Sky

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

  James Boswell

  Pleasure, Whim, Known

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

  Storm Jameson

  Heart, Brain, Sometimes

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.89, A&C Black

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• And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Love, Kindness, Greatness

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• You must not ever stop being whimsical.

  Mary Oliver

  Healing, Whimsy, Responsibility For Your Life

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.16, Penguin

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• 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

  Dream, Real, Believe

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.489, Dell

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• Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.

  Richard Simmons

  Jobs, Laughing, Serious

  "Richard Simmons Spreads The Gospel Of Fitness". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 24, 2013.

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

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Chance, Daily Life, Charm

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

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Confusing, Fans, Storytelling

  "Tell the story! Tell the story!" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2008.

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• It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Fun, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

  Julian Barnes

  Giving, Decision, Enough Time

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.93, Random House

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• The whole country needs to get to the bottom of what really happened with the Russian collusion allegations. But in the meantime, we have a president Donald Trump who himself says trust me. He does not accept the boundaries of law. He basically says that if anybody gets too close for comfort, I'm going to get rid of them. And as long as that's in place, we cannot afford as a country to put our fate in the hands of someone so whimsical and so unpredictable.

  Laurence Tribe

  Country, Fate, Long

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• From the opening lines, Sleeping with Schubert is a hilarious, whimsical romp through the looking glass of a great musical mystery. The writing snaps, crackles, and pops with humor as Bonnie Marson makes Schubert a sexy, happening kind of guy who gives new meaning to our dreaming the impossible.

  Jonis Agee

  Sexy, Dream, Sleep

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• One who has loved truly can never lose entirely.

  Napoleon Hill

  Think And Grow Rich, Loved And Lost, Loses

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.168, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

  Helen Lynd

  Expression, Desire, Sentimental

  Helen Merrell Lynd (2013). “On Shame And The Search For Identity”, p.203, Routledge

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fortune, Caprice, Temper

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• Treatment of the apparently whimsical fluctuations of the stock quotations as truly non stationary processes requires a model of such complexity that its practical value is likely to be limited. An additional complication, not encompassed by most stock market models, arises from the manifestation of the market as a nonzero sum game.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Games, Arise, Process

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Chapter Nine, Weighted Statistical Logic And Statistical Games, 1977.

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• When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

  Drew Barrymore

  Nice, Kids, Thinking

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

  Daniel H. Pink

  Beautiful, Today, Engaging

  Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.62, Penguin

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• There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because we have an audience of people who enjoy it.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Silly, People, British

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Eye, Men, Rocks

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.258, Vintage

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