Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Darwin

We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Barbara Mertz

A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.

David Howell

One-up, one to play, you fancy your chances.

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.

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.

Observing the tradition from the outside, it looks like it's about looking fine in a big fancy hat. But it's about more than that.

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

I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles.

Mads Mikkelsen

I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.

Herbie Hancock

I would be all over the piano, but Miles would play a few notes that would just wipe out all that fancy stuff I was playing.

Geraldine Brooks

I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.

Edgar Allan Poe

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

Maisie Williams

I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.

Kelly Preston

I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way.

Aarti Sequeira

I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.

Tyler Farr

I've never been the type of guy that's ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

Adriana Trigiani

I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.

Aby Rosen

I enjoy the burger joint the same way I enjoy fancy meals.

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.

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.

Donald Miller

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

Alexander Pope

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

William White

Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.

I went to a fancy french restaurant called "Deja Vu." The headwaiter said, "Don't I know you?

Liev Schreiber

I think that for me, I'm in a great place. I work all the time, I hang out in fancy hotels, and I do interviews all day, and I get free coffee.