Quotes About Whimsy

Somewhere along the way I realized that I enjoyed making useless things a lot more than well-finished products.

Quark!--the Quarkbeast

I must remember about chandeliers and dancing, about swans and roses and snow.

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

It would have been nice to have had unicorns.

Bob's Nobs.

Of course, Moomintrolls don't wear clothes, except sometimes in bed.

necklace or a rock or a piece of cheese.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

I don't want realism. I want magic. I live magic. I am magic.

bimble beedle bom.

You know what I think? I think everyone should be able, just once, to make an inanimate object come to life and be his pal. Like an orange. Or a hammer.

A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

She thinks, I want an orange soda. And I want vodka to mix into the orange soda. And while we're at it, I'd also like to stop being able to see how people are going to bite it. Oh, and a pony. I definitely want a goddamn pony.

I'm in this relationship for the capes and castles.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

It turns out birds can't really buy pizza, even if they're enchanted.

A female feline named Katta Is getting fatta and fatta But she's pretty and purry And funny and furry So what does an ounce or two matta?

Giraffes don't play golf.

We agreed that whether we became parents would be 'the single most important decision we would ever make together.' Yet the very momentousness of the decision guaranteed that it never seemed real, and so remained on the level of whimsy. Every time one of us raised the question of parenthood, I felt like a seven-year-old contemplating a Thumbelina that wets iself for Christmas.