Whim Quotes

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.

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

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

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our 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.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

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.

I do things on a whim.

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.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

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.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.