Top 235 Whim Quotes & Sayings

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

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

All of the best songs happen on a whim.

Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

Wit: a whim followed by a wham.

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

As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

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

Collective will supplants individual whim

Having achieved something so special as peace, it is criminal to throw it away on a whim.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

My wife has a whim of iron.

I do things on a whim.

I don't sign contracts on a whim.

I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.

God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.

It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.

For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.

Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

I think when I first sold digital comics it was sort of on a whim.

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.

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

I wrote 'Zeuglodon' on a whim. I found myself writing the voice of an 11-year-old girl. I don't know why.

I write my scripts on a whim, without worrying about plot points and graphs.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.

Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.

You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

New York is a glamorous city, constituted mostly of nobodies. They crave the lights, and if they tell you differently, they're lying. Only dreamers come to New York. As a matter of course, few people have control of their lives. You live at the whim of your boss, your landlord, your grocer, the stranger, the judge, the bus driver, the mayor who won't let you smoke. On the other hand, you live at the whim of your whims, and that is the most exciting thing there is.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

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.

I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.

I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.

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

U.K. Athletics needs to develop a financial independence so it no longer has to be subject to the whim of politicians. If you are reliant on government, there is a big problem.

It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

I think it is important to time yourself to make the right choices. It's not responsible to go ahead and say a 'yes' or 'no' on a whim.

Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.