Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

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.

Nicholas Rowe

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

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.

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

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.

John Keats

Ever let thy Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home

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.

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

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.

Samuel Johnson

Insanity is the power of fancy over reason.

Judd Nelson

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

Eugene Levy

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

Hannah More

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

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

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.

Julie Benz

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

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.

Judah Friedlander

I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Meg Cabot

But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning

Megan Smith

Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.