Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were passive on defense. We couldn't be physical when we needed to. Potential is a fancy word for having not done it.

Laura Bush

The thing I like about this fellow is he grew up on a farm, ... He doesn't have a lot of fancy airs.

Judd Nelson

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

John Keats

Ever let thy Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home

It's never needed vindication. It was that fancy stuff that needed to prove itself.

Henry David Thoreau

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

Jeff Greenfield

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

Jeff Greenfield

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

Eugene Levy

I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

Florence Nightingale

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

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

They go with everything from jeans to a fancy outfit.

Chan Gailey

They didn't do anything fancy or unusual that we haven't worked on, but when you play them, you have to get ready for a ton of stuff. When you haven't spent a ton of time on something, sometimes they get you, and they got us good.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

Judah Friedlander

I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.

Lily Allen

I quite fancy Graham Coxon. I haven't met him yet, though. I'd like to.

Lillian Hellman

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

Marquis de Sade

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Nicole Miller

Its so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything.

Matt Groening

I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.

Michel de Montaigne

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Epicurus

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

Mason Cooley

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

Eric Stonestreet

I’m sort of like Costco. I’m big, I’m not fancy and I dare you to not like me.

James F. Cooper

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

Lisa Ling

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

Louis MacNeice

World is suddener than we fancy it.

John Wooden

People ask me if I'd permit fancy things, like dunks. Well, if they did dunk, it was with no fancy flair. No behind-the-back dribbles or passes unless necessary. If it was for show, you were on the bench.