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Quotes About Whimsy

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
~ Ted Naifeh
I get things in my head every once in a while and decide I must experience them, no matter how ridiculous.
~ Jonny Lee Miller
In a way, I do believe in a fairy-tale romance.
~ Neha Sharma
Willy Wonka had his chocolate factory; I have my Fear & Fancy Parlor.
~ Jidenna
She played upon her music-box a fancy air by chance, And straightway all her polka-dots Began a lively dance.
~ Peter Newell
If all the heavens with all their stars exploded in this valley, they would be but a leaf fluttering in the wind. Here a tiny fish is mightier than a whale and nobody can say why.
~ Peter Sís
Marshmallow guns (or other similarly useless weapons) are actually fairly common accessories in your typical spark laboratory. No one knows why. They just sort of accumulate.
~ Phil Foglio
Walden, which is a diary that oscillates between eye-rolling minute tedium and laughable hyperbole, with sections of profound whimsy and social condescension.
~ A.A. Gill
Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.
~ A.A. Milne
Life must be lived as play.
~ Plato
My brain is a pretty intense, wacky place, and that's kind of where Miranda lives. But that's why I like the rest of my life and my stuff to be more clean, white, and simple without a lot of clutter.
~ Colleen Ballinger
There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room.
~ Lydia Millet
Wandering alone in the library, letting his broom tell him things no one else could hear, he had heard the whistle and the disjointed calliope hymns.
~ Ray Bradbury
I am going to be careful not to make too much sense
~ James Elkins
And what do we have here? A scary monster, cowboy, and a fairy princess! Here's a hit of ecstasy, run along now.
~ James St. James
Arthur lolled.
~ Douglas Adams
was friend the word? He seemed more like a succession of extraordinary events than a person.
~ Douglas Adams
The idea of a Universe didn't fit into their world picture, so to speak. They simply couldn't cope with it. And so, charmingly, delightfully, intelligently, whimsically if you like, they decided to destroy it.
~ Douglas Adams
En ese caso debemos estar locos. - No es mal día para estarlo.
~ Douglas Adams
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
~ Agnes Repplier
Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?
~ Alan Jay Lerner
I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle.
~ Arlo Guthrie
I always wanted pink hair.
~ Rachel McAdams
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its whimsy and pointlessness may depict the story of life - and indeed could be a useful model to keep in mind, seeing as so much of life's ambition comes unstuck or leads to nothing much at all.
~ Michael Leunig