#whim

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#get #important #into #me #music

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