Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nothing else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so.

Philip Greenspun

Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine.

Lobbying is just a fancy word for talking to your legislators and ... telling them how you feel about an issue. It's something everyone can do.

Albert Camus

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

Annie Dillard

We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.

Alexander Pope

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Dylan Moran

I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.

Andrea Corr

I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to.

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.

Benjamin Franklin

Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

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.

William Shakespeare

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

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

All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

William Shakespeare

So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

Charles Lamb

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

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.

We see more stomachaches and kids get all kids of fancy workups to see if they have an ulcer.

John Prescott

I'm not a fancy rapier man-more of a broadsword. Not for me the flesh wound. I prefer to take the head off.

Tomas Vokoun

I'm just trying to stop the puck. There's nothing fancy about it.

Jack Bruce

I'm not going with some big time producer who takes over completely and I'm just a sideman. I wouldn't fancy that really.

Nicholas Rowe

Is she not more than painting can express,/ Or youthful poets fancy when they love?

Keyshawn Johnson

This is what matters to me, ... Not all the big numbers, the fancy statistics. I want to make the plays that count.

Jane Powell

They're pretty simple. They don't have a lot of fancy gingerbread details. Everything is straight and flat and usually one-story.

Donald Miller

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

Hannah More

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

I don't think I'm a good ol' boy. Honestly, the last thing I am is a redneck. I like silk sheets, fancy cars, beautiful women, good whiskey.

Samuel Johnson

Insanity is the power of fancy over reason.

I'll leave Basra.... I don't fancy being kidnapped again.

Melanie Lynskey

To take a job just so I can go on a fancy vacation doesn't really seem worth it.

These same men who ... protest they didn't want to be involved, when these Mafia men and the junior Mafia men, the union officials in their fancy suits and pinky rings went walking into the union hall and boasted and bragged.

Hugh Grant

I've been through hundreds of people working for us because I fancy them all - there is something wrong with me. I like that whole thing about being the boss.