Whims Quotes

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this? - Thomas Jefferson

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice. - Drew Barrymore

We've been putting on the show at the library almost since we started hooking, and it seems to be appreciated. The creations are warm and whimsical. Some are traditionally images of homes or pets. Some are very contemporary patterns. Some are Japanese patterns. - June Myles

We offer a lot of selection. It is not a traditional store. It leans towards trendy, whimsical and up-to-date. We have fun clothes for fashionable kids. - Jolinda Fox

We love 'lounge' culture, that era in the early '60s with all those bright colors, Dean Martin and what not. It's just part of the whimsy we want to bring to the store. We want Strangelove's to be the kind of place where, if you're having a bad day, you can come here and get cheered up. - Scott Morgan

We leave the meeting believing that Yahoo! is a must own. While the stock will undoubtedly be subject to the whims of the current trading environment, the growth opportunities, although not lay-ups, are enormous and compelling in our opinion. - Lise Buyer

We can predict that in the future, the borders of independent nations will be breached at the whims and fancies of the superpowers. - Mahathir Mohamad

To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm. - Tom C Clark

This is truly marvelous work: full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy. - Pete Hamill