Whim Quotations

I initially got a job at Disneyland through a friend who was working there. He said, 'You would make a great princess there,' and that I should audition. So I just went on a whim to audition, and I wound up getting a job as Belle, from 'Beauty and the Beast,' at Disneyland. I did that for about a year and a half.

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

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

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

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.

Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.

My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.

Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.

When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.

We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really is a lot of fun.

With the physical trade still quiet because of the summer slowdown, the markets seem to be at the whim of the funds, so more exogenous issues such as the equities, oil, bonds and the dollar, or any other event that impacts the funds, needs to be watched closely.

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

Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind

She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

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

Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

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

One side believes prices are established by supply and demand, ... The other believes prices are the result of conspiracy, whim or production costs.

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.

Nice try. I know that those guys can get in and out of appointments at a whim so he can come out and address those people that voted him into office.

If the government asks people to evacuate, the government has some responsibility to provide an option for those people who can't evacuate and are at the whim of Mother Nature,

Going in without a list is usually kind of a disaster for most of us. You're going on hunger and a whim and not planning well.

He wanted to move to Mount Holly, but he was having problems getting approval there so on a whim one day, he got off at Riverside and he liked it here.

I think it is really unfortunate that the New York University administration has decided to take a page out of the Yale administration's anti-union book, ... It's shocking that in 2000 the NYU administration decided to recognize the democratic decision of their students, and then at the whim of the president of the university, they can take away their contract, take away their grievance procedure.

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

We won't let the freedom of firing at whim install itself in French legislation.

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

We revere the presidency. Any innuendo or any kind of impulse that anyone has to attribute any kind of motivation on the part of these men of honor who have prepared this case for you today on any whim on their part other than to do their constitutional duty should be rebuffed at every conversation,

We are a people deeply subservient to the whim of the Catholic Church. Here the cardinal is more powerful than the president.

Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national resources. All these kids are being educated to be Americans, not citizens of Minneapolis or San Francisco.

The musicians went on strike and did not show up for rehearsals, so they cannot then decide to come back on a whim or without a contract.

You're never going to have permanent jobs if you're depending on the whim of viewers for the success or failure of a TV show.

This isn't a whim of hers. She knows this is right, flat out. There is no down side to this, ... This is the right thing to do.

They (the critics) shouldn't be standing on a trap door for the next three years that can be opened on the whim of Hun Sen.

I just felt on a whim that this would be a situation when he would get in there and give us an opportunity to win. It was just a gut feeling of a coach.

HIPs should reduce the number of aborted sales, where vendors put their property on the market almost at a whim because it doesn't cost them anything.

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

The whims of youth break all the rules.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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

My wife has a whim of iron

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

Wit: a whim followed by a wham.

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.

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

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

This is a good, strong list of stores. With all these stores, it speaks to the overall health of the market. These are not stores that just decide on a whim to open, so they are optimistic about the region going forward.

This is a huge victory. My candidacy shows that the river of discontent is real and people are ready for a change. They want a county judge that looks after their interests and does not consider taxpayers as cash cows for every whim of government.

A judge's decision is to be to be fair, impartial and not according to a whim or fear of the latest opinion poll,

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

Collective will supplants individual whim

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

The convention miscalled 'modesty' has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

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.