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  • 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.

  • I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy writer of all time. I think he would make a great addition to The Office staff. If you look through Chekhov plays there is a lot of awkward pauses in there. His mixture of pathos, absurdity, truthfulness and whimsy is just mixed together perfectly.

    Real   Thinking   Play  
    Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.
  • but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

    Jane Austen (2016). “Juvenilia -”, p.19, Jane Austen
  • 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!

    Design   Adults   Care  
    Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.231, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 4, 2015.
  • 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.

    Artist   People   Joy  
  • In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.

    Summer   Grief   Unique  
  • This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

    Color   Joy   Whimsy  
  • If God brings our pets back to life, it wouldn't surprise me. It would be just like Him. It would be totally in keeping with His generous character... Exorbitant. Excessive. Extravagant in grace after grace. Of all the dazzling discoveries and ecstatic pleasures heaven will hold for us, the potential of seeing Scrappy would be pure whimsy-utterly, joyfully, surprisingly superfluous... Heaven is going to be a place that will refract and reflect in as many ways as possible the goodness and joy of our great God, who delights in lavishing love on His children.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Hurt   Broken   Seductive  
  • 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.

    Fun   Home   Personality  
    "Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In". Book by Bryan Batt, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.
  • You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

    Mary Oliver (1995). “Blue Pastures”, Harcourt
  • While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.248
  • 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.

    Father   Son   Magic  
  • Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

  • 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.

    Art   Adults   Elements  
    Thomas M. Disch (2005). “On SF”, p.141, University of Michigan Press
  • 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.

    People   Doe   Whimsy  
    Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.

    Whimsy   Matter   Way  
    Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • I like whimsy and satire, and that's what Americans like so much about Brits. We bring subtlety and sense of humor that you sometimes lack. We have a very long history of importing Brits like Christopher Hitchens who are better at it than Americans are.

    Source: thestagblog.com
  • In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the lost boy he'd been back then. But she had the grown male. She had him right in her arms, and for a brief moment of whimsy, she imagined that she was never, ever going to let him go.

    Boys   Past   Silence  
    J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2677, Penguin
  • I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

  • 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.

    Thinking   Whimsy   Band  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

    Dream   Alive   Whimsy  
    Kevin Smith (2012). “Tough Sh*t Deluxe: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good”, p.266, Penguin
  • Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our common heritage. You don’t need to quit your job and move to Paris in order to lay claim to this heritage - all you have to do is clear some space in your life for whimsy, invention, sensory pleasure, and play. Most of all, you have to learn how to follow your curiosity more than your fear.

  • 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.

    Ideas   Risk   Special  
  • 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.

    Light   Brave   Darkness  
    Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a flower or a birthday cake full of candles, then we're forfeiting one of the sweetest whimsies of our youth.

    Stars   Flower   Thinking  
  • Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

    Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.91, Bantam
  • Solitude begets whimsies.

    Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.279
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