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Quotes About Whimsical

Smeeg smog smockeefee,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Above all, art should be fun.
~ Alexander Calder
These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you can imagine that-art for fun.
~ Sally Mann
But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons
~ Dave Eggers
Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
~ William Shakespeare
Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. Fairies, be gone, and be all ways away.
~ William Shakespeare
No, thanks. I already own a penguin.
~ Woody Allen
Han was thinking he was just as likely to shoot flames from his rear end.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
The fairies have washed their linen in the water of your dress.
~ Colette
It's like a fairy tale. . . on crack!
~ Unknown
She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.
~ Holly Black
They were in love with him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magic people. They loved him the way they'd loved Beast the first time he swept Belle around the dance floor in her yellow dress. They loved him as they loved the Eleventh Doctor with his bow tie and his flippy hair and the Tenth Doctor with his mad laugh.
~ Holly Black
Trees of ice grow blue fruits the size of peaches, encased in a frozen crust. Some have fallen and split open like candy apples. The scent is that of honey and spice and sap. The leaves of the trees give off a haunting sound not unlike wind chimes when the air blows through the branches.
~ Holly Black
The moon and stars on her face give her a puckish look.
~ Liane Moriarty
Why is Nana's house so messy?', she asked after an incongruous moment. Vicky smiled. Ah, well you see, your Nana is a very special lady. She's really quite magical, you know. And when she looks at the world, she sees it in a very special way, like it's a party bag or a toy shop, and she likes to keep bits of it, and she feels sad when she throws things away.
~ Lisa Jewell
I believe there are various aspects of me - sometimes I am very capricious and cannot make up my mind, so I'm unpredictable!
~ Bae Suzy
Our Trolls are like gummy bears that have been flocked in velvet, and it's a world made of fiber art... carpeted floors, houses made of hair - even fire is made of hair.
~ Mike Mitchell
Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
~ Nathan Fielder
Somewhere far away, sitting on a cloud perhaps, there must be some whimsical dark deity that really likes me, because just before I let frustration push me into stupidity, I dimly hear the voices of the soccer players, calling out in three languages to look out, mister! And before I can even realize that I am the only mister in the area, the soccer ball thumps into my head, bounces up into the air, and then rolls across the street. I
~ Jeff Lindsay
Bubble-gum angels swooped from top margins, or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs. Maidens with golden hair dripped sea-blue tears into the books spine. Grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered species list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, Candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Christ, I'm in a Doris Day movie
~ Jennifer Crusie
When she dreams of love, she dreams of smashed potatoes.
~ Jerry Spinelli
I want taquitos and a clown with no head!
~ Jhonen Vasquez
My personal decorating style is cozy, romantic and a little rustic, with a sense of whimsy.
~ Kimberly Schlapman