Fancy Quotes

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

It's so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton.

I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.