Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

It's true; I have a skill and it's... it has not related to acting, it's not related to auditions, it's not related to studios, not related to public whim. It's whether I'm funny or not and whether I can entertain people.

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

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.

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

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

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.

Philanthropists decide how to spend their money based on their own personal whims, rather than what is best for the social good.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? We draw out from other people our own thought. If, when you go out to organize, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organize one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry.

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

Stock market goes up or down, and you can't adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment.

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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