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Quotes About Whimsy

So, you know, if, if I wanted to get up and just play golf one day, I would just get up and play golf. If I wanted to go to Vegas, I would just get up and go to Vegas.
~ Michael Phelps
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.
~ Lilly Pulitzer
It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.
~ Jeff Lindsay
a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
~ Edward Gorey
Let's make plans," I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, "No, let's leave it to chance.
~ David Levithan
I love all things magic.
~ Jaz Sinclair
Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.
~ Noah Baumbach
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
~ Horace
Razzmatazz topped with hot fudge, strawberries, rainbow sprinkles, and whipped cream. It looked nasty, but you had to admire a guy secure enough to order sprinkles.
~ Colleen Coble
Nothing, but a dream have I and so very precious it is to me.
~ Unknown
Life is too important to take seriously.
~ Unknown
Yeah, world peace would be all right, but what about a day off in a slab of ham the size of my head.
~ Lois Greiman
rules seemed to constantly shift on whim.
~ Loretta Chase
Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.
~ Unknown
Esmerelda's blue and green eyes could have made Stevie remember being hired by Mister Snuffleupagus, if that was what she wanted.
~ Jim Butcher
Sugartown Sugartown Sugartown Sugartown.
~ Unknown
Well, she's walking through the clouds, with a circus mind that's running wild.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Bonne vent, jolie vent. (Good wind, nice wind, pretty wind.)
~ Joanne Harris
Being crazy isn't enough.
~ Dr Seuss
And above them, a plume of thistledown caught the light of the stars.
~ Victoria Hanley
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
~ W. H. Auden
You can't take their type too seriously; they will be all steamed up over an idea today, but by tomorrow will have dropped it for some other wild notion.
~ Unknown
Don't do anything that isn't play
~ Joseph Campbell