Christopher Moore

The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.

American Writer

David Shields

I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.

American Author

Drew Barrymore

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

American Actress

Ben Fogle

Where once Lego offered a whimsical form of escapism into the world of the subconscious, encouraging creativity and imagination, it's transformed into a rigid 'box ticking' discipline where children are encouraged to build by conformity.

English Writer

Busy Philipps

The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel like you can never enough whimsical throw pillows in your house, in your life. My husband probably disagrees.

Alexandra Petri

Snow is like a manic pixie dream girl: fun and whimsical when you encounter it only through the barrier of a movie screen - but absolute misery to have to put up with in real life.

American Journalist

Graeme Murphy

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

Australian Dancer

Harriet Van Horne

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

Jazz Jennings

Mermaids are just the most whimsical, mystical creatures of all time.

American Activist

Michael Leunig

Australian Cartoonist

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Avoid Seriousness

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Play Over Practicality

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Describing decor as 'whimsical' means it's chosen for enjoyment rather than function.

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 Or you can have compassion toward people who have lost a loved one and they're alone. By feeling your own feelings, you can open up your feelings more universally toward the world. So I think there's a great opportunity here for growth on the personal level, but you have to have almost a whimsical curiosity

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 to general weirdos just look at the topic and see if we can build something in that really collaborative mindset then another question we asked ourselves is that can I both be inexpensive inexpensive because that means that it's inclusive and it's kind of more whimsical it's not this deep pocketed

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 Another hypothesis was that worm grunting tickled their bodies, so they emerged to end the aggravation. Whimsical! But worm grunting vibrates the ground’s surface. If worms were evading the vibrations, wouldn't they burrow deeper instead?

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 So Netra and I wound up our life, closed up everything we had, and we decided to move to New York. And this was just eight months ago. I moved back to New York, my work has changed. Everything about my work has become more whimsical.

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 And again, that stuff needs to be undertaken in the context of space. And finally, I'd like to leave you with a glimpse that takes us back to the world of imagery. This is a system called TAMPER, which is a slightly whimsical look

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 They embrace the powers and the opportunities and the limitations of the world. A world of technology that is wonderful, whimsical and a tiny bit weird. When I was a girl, I wanted to be a storyteller. I loved make-believe worlds

A delightful way to...

 filled with time travel, hidden histories, and magical underworlds. Readers delight in discovering how the mind-bending imagery, whimsical characters and eerie coincidences fit together. Kafka narrates every second chapter,

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 than just losing some whimsical ability to gaze at the stars. For example, countless plant and animal species are affected. So we could talk about sea turtles or pollinators or any of these super important species

The problem of light...

 we don't understand just how many creatures we share our world with. And that means we don't yet have the full picture of our weird and whimsical home planet. Thank you.

The invisible life...

 All right. So before any one goes out of sync, I'll just put those right there. Now, that might seem a bit whimsical,

Whimsical

Autistic, random, unpredictable, fanciful.

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Having or showing a quirky, odd, or amusing character or idea.

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Designed in a playful or fanciful style rather than being practical.

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