Whimsicality Quotes

… there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

People in Los Angeles are more used to acting silly than other people.

Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.

Jill Eisenstadt's comic second novel, 'Kiss Out,' is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

I like keeping people guessing. I like to have fun with them wondering if I'm sane or not.

Juvenile stuff has always made me laugh. It's what I know.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He's just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don't see anything twisted about it. It's sort of ridiculous and wacky. It's sort of fun.

Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach to darkness.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder.