#whim

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

#after #again #almost #arrives #because

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books. ↗

— Maira Kalman

#music

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#humor #imagination #whimsy #humor

What's life without whimsy? ↗

— Dr Sheldon Cooper - The Big Bang Theory

#sheldon #whimsy #life

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#down #else #i #ignorance #life

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim. ↗

— Rachel Hunter

#age #dad #formative #fun #i

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#damn #envy #led #never #read

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#catching #chaos #days #defends #hands

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#clutches #elsewhere #excuse #get #hearth

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#equally #gratify #laboratory #mankind #modern