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.
Annie Dillard

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.
C. S. Forester

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.
Richard Le Gallienne

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.
Joan Van Ark

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

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

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

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.
Henry M. Morris

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.
Rachel Hunter

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

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.
Alice Foote MacDougall

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

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Henry Fielding

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

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

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

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