Fancy Quotations | Page 4

I mean, I don't think I was liked as a person. I was kind of seen as a black kid, young African-American, cornrows, drives fancy cars, wears diamond earrings, things like that. They just kind of based their perception off of what I drove and what I did and things like that. All those things were never a part of any other player on that team but me.

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

I'm living in New York, getting paid to do what I love. I get to boss people around, wear a fancy costume, dance with beautiful mermaids, and meet my fans every night at the stage door. I'm loving it.

If my mom came here today, she'd probably join this red-hat brigade, ... My mother got my sense of humor, even when I was a kid. I would just do things that tickled my fancy in the moment, and she would ask me who I was entertaining. I'd say, 'Well, me.' And she would tell me that nobody knew that and they thought I was psychotic. Well, I don't ever want people to think I'm psychotic, but I can't help myself from doing these things.

I never thought I could do this. Who knew I could do this? Not me. I just go after the hitters and try to learn something every day. I haven't been fancy these last couple of weeks. Throwing just fastballs.

I'm not the typical ballplayer. I don't drive a fancy car like a lot of guys. I don't get wrapped up in a lot of stuff. I just like to play baseball and win. That's what I care about. The other stuff is political stuff and I don't worry about it.

I'm a neighborhood-bar kind of guy, anyway. I'd just as soon have a hamburger and fries as have a steak or a fancy meal. I like to be around people I consider my friends, and I've made a lot of friends in my four years here.

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love

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

I guess the success of selling this kind of food to New Yorkers is that to them it seems new. Serving the head or the tail or the tongue certainly doesn't make me a pioneer in the real world-although maybe, in New York, in a fancy restaurant, I was a bit of one.

Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sense of the technological possibilities of our time, and the restless roaming of his fancy in considering how they might be most imaginatively applied, despite his enthusiasm for Basic English, or the siren suit which so upset his hosts in Moscow - despite all this, Churchill remains a European of the nineteenth century.

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.

I didn't fancy him at first, but then we spent time alone together. It was the way he treated me and looked after me.

There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

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

...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural... fancy machine.

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.

I just don't think men fancy me.

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our staff to buy it.

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

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

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

If I had stayed there, who is to say that George Burley wouldn't have come in and said he didn't fancy me, brought in the players he has now and left me right down the pecking order? That would have put me right back to where I started.

I don't think the bull market's over, but I think it's getting tired. I think it's slowing down, and I think it's going to continue to creep ahead, but I think you've seen the fancy action for a while.

I'd love to have seen one of them get the job...give it to any of them and I'd fancy us to win the (2008) European championship when they do take over from Eriksson because the players are so good.

Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.

I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer.

It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

Rage flared up in Tessa and she considered belting Woolsey with the poker whether he came near her or not. He had moved awfully quickly while fighting Will, though, and she didn’t fancy her chances. “You don’t know James Carstairs. Don’t speak about him.” “Love him, do you?” Woolsey managed to make it sound unpleasant. “But you love Will, too.” Tessa froze. She had known that Magnus knew of Will’s affection for her, but the idea that what she felt for him in return was written across her face was too terrifying to contemplate.

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

I didn't fancy any of my teachers.

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

I was in a very fancy, high-end boutique where the sales associates stand around like mannequins. I walked in and the first thing they said was, "Ooh it smells like booty in here" because they knew me from Scream Queens.

Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks.

Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.

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

I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.

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

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

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!

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

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

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

You don't need to waste money on a fancy program or app to do a basic budget. I've been using a simple Excel spreadsheet since 2005 to track my monthly budget.

The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work.

Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

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

I have a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very nonsensically, and I will not balk my fancy.--Accordingly I set off thus:

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

False fancy brings real misery.

If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The fancy name for this is constraint theory. It's a nonquantitative model, but it's a field of mathematics.

You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast

World is suddener than we fancy it.

You can only coach the guys that show up and that's something, again, that decision is going to get made somewhere else. Whether they want to let somebody go and bring somebody in that kind of tickles our fancy a little bit. But you work with the guys that are here and I am OK with the guys that are here. And whatever happens with Buck, we wish him the best. We want him to be here, but if he's not, we keep marching.

The luxury of having a larger budget wasn't about spending $100,000 mixing with fancy Hit Factory mixers to get radio songs. But we knew if something wasn't right, we could afford to go back in the studio.

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

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

Is love a fancy, or a feeling?

Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?

Already my government was the government of national unity. They just found a fancy new name for that.

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your ''emancipation.'' You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields -- discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West -- superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

The goals gave us confidence and the tempo was good, but in the second half we over indulged, started playing fancy flicks and our centre-half started trying back-heels which might please the fans, but I'm not sure about the manager.