Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

William Shakespeare

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

Charles Lamb

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

Benjamin Franklin

Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

Brad Richards

We're just not doing enough right now. We're not trying to win games, we're just hoping. You can use a lot of fancy words but there's no other way to put it.

Richard P. Feynman

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

Travis Fimmel

You don't get recognized that much unless you want to get recognized, like if you go to the fancy joints and that. It's like, L.A. - there are 10 restaurants. If you want to be seen, you go.

Lillian Hellman

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

John Fuller

When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz.

Bryan Adams

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Carl Honore

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

Luke Pasqualino

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Michael Weatherly

Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

Madhur Bhandarkar

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

Tim DeBruycker

We stopped doing what we were doing and we let them right back in the game. Then we're tied. No matter what we did in the first few minutes it didn't mean anything.

Joddie Gleason

We started off the season making a few more turnovers than we would have liked, but a lot of that had to do with all the new players learning a new system.

Nancy Diers

We started a little slow, and we picked it up after the first loss. We didn't serve receive well, and we missed a few serves that were critical. That just comes with experience.

Jamie Watson

We started a few games where we started strong, experience-wise but we should have played better in the end. We needed this game to stay in the playoff hunt.

Steve White

We want more people using the trail systems. We've got miles of trails. Let's use them.

Jeff Burton

We're going 200 mph. We're not thinking about being safe or we wouldn't be going 200 miles an hour.

Bruce Robinson

You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner.

Rose George

Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be filleted, then sent back to Scottish shops and restaurants, than to pay Scottish filleters.

Paul Levitz

Most of us never got more than 100 miles from our houses. That the school pulled this together is astounding.

Mike Heimerdinger

We're about a million miles away after (Monday) night.

Bruce Donald

Seventeen miles of the proposed 25 miles of the greenway are completed.

Ivor Heerden

We're doing repairs on the breaches, but there are many, many, many miles of levee that we don't have any idea of.

Bob Burns

No one here cared. It's all the (people) 60 to 80 miles up the river...Trojan was probably one of the safest things we had around here.

David Stern

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

Sunny Murray

When you take two notes on the piano, an octave apart, and play them in rapid alternation, you get a third tone.

William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Eddie Van Halen

You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

Donald Rumsfeld

So I remain inexpert on precisely what he said, and I'm told he used notes and not text,

Christy Mathewson

I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.

David Benioff

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

Al Pacino

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

Al Jarreau

Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you're going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain't going to touch my stuff.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I don't let [my friends] visit me filming and I don't bring them to premieres. It's a different head zone - when I'm on set, I'm working. When I'm just with my friends, I can just hang out, do normal stuff and generally be a complete idiot. It's the same with everyone.

Chloe Sevigny

The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.

David Giuntoli

There's a lot of great stuff on TV.

David Sanborn

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

Catherine Hardwicke

Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.

Carole King

It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.

Laura Smith

When you've been through stuff together, you become a team.

Bob Marley

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

John Boitano

I thought we were going to get wiped when we were down 14-0.

Rev. Barham

He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose.

Harry Ponfil

If they can get that they can wipe out my account.

Jeffrey Steele

It doesn't take much to wipe out the treasury,

Craig Miller

A lot of the departments down there have been wiped out, ... There's no 911 for us.

Richard Preston

Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.

Rick Najera

New York was the place where everyone got wiped out.

Lil Wayne

Confidence is the stain they can't wipe off.