Fancy Quotes
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We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up As chance will have it, on the rock or sand: For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore. (Quote by - Sir Henry Taylor)
I think (in Arkansas) we saw something that was not quite as fancy but very functional. (Quote by - Tim Norton)
Casually elegant. Barefoot elegant. Not ultra fancy. That's what we are striving for here. (Quote by - Julie Norton)
Look for what may strike their fancy. (Quote by - Terrance Gainer)
We started with this idea of doing something fancy.. but with the basis of sport. (Quote by - Miuccia Prada)
The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour. (Quote by - Shirley Manson)
It's not a fancy place. It's comfortable and homey. (Quote by - Ann Harrington)
I'll leave Basra.. I don't fancy being kidnapped again. (Quote by - James Brandon)
Something lingering with boiling oil in it, I fancy. (Quote by - William S. Gilbert)
It is sad that, over the years, all of these fanciful and unusual theories about Mr. Holt's disappearance should receive public ventilation, overshadow his life and require an explanation. (Quote by - Graeme Johnstone)
I liked the way we executed there at the end. It wasn't anything fancy, just attacking the basket and finding people open at the right times. (Quote by - Pat Derksen)
One thing we have learned from doing these things is not to get too fancy with the channel designs. Once the water starts flowing, it usually has its own ideas on where to go. (Quote by - Thomas Ardito)
I want to have more of a modest scale, not fancy, business trade show in central Tokyo for maybe two or three days. (Quote by - Yoshihiro Maruyama)
They go with everything from jeans to a fancy outfit. (Quote by - Darrin Cody)
Josh is absolutely gorgeous - and very nice. I definitely fancied him and I think he fancied me. But then Scarlett turned up. It could have been me - I'm gutted. (Quote by - Jemima Rooper)
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, "Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.". (Quote by - Count Basie)
We put up the fancy spires first. When we saw that the whole edifice was shaky, we set to building the walls. We have still to make a cellar. (Quote by - Zoltan Kodaly)
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; / For the apparel oft proclaims the man. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It's just like going to a fancy restaurant. (Quote by - Beth Buster)
I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to. (Quote by - Andrea Corr)
After I birdied the 10th I did fancy my chances of a 59. (Quote by - Anthony Wall)
Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. (Quote by - John Bunyan)
Our goal in this game was to create a physical presence on our offense, nothing fancy. (Quote by - Chuck Long)
A little of what you fancy does you good. (Quote by - Proverb)
Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
What we are going to need is not fancy offices, but we're going to need a paid department somewhere down the line. (Quote by - Kevin Dooley)
He just wrestled solid. It was basic stuff, nothing really fancy. (Quote by - Kirby Moses)
Black is back - as if it ever goes away - and richer, boosted by fanciful textures, embroidery and brocade. Butternut, camel and olive tones are similarly decadent, and that burgundy brown - it's so rich you just want to eat it, .. If they melted Hershey's chocolate, that's what it would look like. (Quote by - Joan Kelly)
He has the nimbleness and fancy footwork of a prima ballerina. (Quote by - Ross Baker)
It was the Cadillac of biplanes. This is the fancy model, with leather seating. The workmanship inside is insane. (Quote by - Bill Allen)
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
The apps are very simple. The terminals and networks are not up to the fancy things that are being touted. (Quote by - Duncan Brown)
We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Some of the stuff they do is so fancy it is probably collegiate level. (Quote by - Jennifer Wright)
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?. (Quote by - William Blake)
I fancied my chances against anyone that was left in. (Quote by - David Howell)
'In headaches and in worry(Quote by - And Time will have his fancy)
When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day, Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
He was tricked by Bonny Lee and he hated her for it, .. The defendant fancied himself street-savvy, and he was taken by a small-time grifter. (Quote by - Shellie Samuels)
I'll say this for sherry - it really makes you fancy a vodka. (Quote by - Barbara Knox)
A poet soaring in the high region of his fancies with his garland and singing robes about him. (Quote by - John Milton)
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. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
She's always been more of a tomboy. Those fancy cars never interested her. (Quote by - John Schultz)
I think maybe we were too confident. We tried to be more fancy. (Quote by - Darius Kasparaitis)
It's a fancy term to say chief grunt. (Quote by - Dave Fields)
It was no fancy of mine about his hands, I observed; for he frequently ground the palms against each other as if to squeeze them dry and warm, besides often wiping them, in a stealthy way, on his pocket-handkerchief. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
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. (Quote by - Craig Marberry)
I fancy Chelsea to beat them. (Quote by - Jonathan Woodgate)
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)
It's possible the money boys and fancy lobbyists will win, but it's also possible we'll win. This will establish the precedent that we're really all in this together and if you're going to do business in New York, you have to meet our basic standards. (Quote by - Dan Cantor)
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds -- or tries to add -- the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented. (Quote by - William Osler)
A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time. (Quote by - Judd Nelson)
Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
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. (Quote by - Alfred Lord Tennyson)
I just fancied Dubai. You get a lot for your money compared with the UK, the weather's guaranteed, there's potential for capital growth, and it's a great position. (Quote by - Daniel Lee)
They don't want much fancy stuff. It's all in the haircut. When the Beatles came over here, everybody started wearing long hair and we went through a phase. (Quote by - Cathy French)
Yes, I do fancy our chances. But we won't have it easy because there are a lot of good teams, especially Japan and the United States. (Quote by - Annika Sorenstam)
We hope they don't spend a lot of shareholders' money building a fancy building. (Quote by - Colin McGranahan)
So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.'. (Quote by - Lee Ryan)
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
What seems rather fanciful about this project is that the fuel-supply aspect appears contingent on proving some highly advanced technology. They're using this as a way to sell reprocessing technology rather than as a way to solve the problem of fuel supply, and that's troubling. (Quote by - Daryl Kimball)
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
It depends on how fancy a customer wants to go with it. (Quote by - Tina Herbert)
She's all my fancy painted her, She's lovely, she's divine. (Quote by - William Mee)
The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be. (Quote by - Charles Reade)
Fears and fancies thick upon me came. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
If you can afford it, add a video game or something kind of fancy. (Quote by - Todd Smith)
No one can penetrate me, They only see what's in their own fancy, always. (Quote by - Ray Davies)
We are looking at the Premiership so players have got to fancy dropping down to the Championship and getting first team football rather than playing in the reserves. (Quote by - Glenn Hoddle)
Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Joshi is one of the best brewers in the United States, .. His beer tastes like one of our fancy $15-a-bottle beers. (Quote by - Chris Knight)
When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest. (Quote by - Oliver Kahn)
He's a lot more solid on his feet than last year. He doesn't do anything fancy. He just doesn't make many mistakes. (Quote by - Dan Kennedy)
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die. (Quote by - Maria Edgeworth)
They want the top-line appliances in their kitchens. They want the fancy countertops. (Quote by - Kermit Baker)
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. (Quote by - William Allen White)
It's not fancy, it's just good. (Quote by - Danny Meyer)
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!. (Quote by - Rebecca Loos)
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
Smoking, .. calms me down. And it's enjoyable. A little bit of what you fancy does you good. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. These are decisions you make yourself, not government. (Quote by - David Hockney)
These huge reptiles, surrounded by the black lava, the leafless shrubs and large cacti, seemed to my fancy like some antediluvian animals. The few dull-colored birds cared no more for me than they did for the great tortoises. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
You know that Pepperidge Farm bread, that stuff is fancy. That stuff is wrapped twice. You open it, and then still ain't open. That's why I don't buy it, I don't need another step between me and toast. (Quote by - Mitch Hedberg)
Fancy light from Fancy caught. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Maybe we were a little too fancy at times and we just need to get the puck into the net. We made a few mistakes, a little bit over aggressive and if you make mistakes against a quality team like this they will burn you. I think we will get better as the rest of the tournament goes on. (Quote by - Chris Chelios)
I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer. (Quote by - Glenn Roeder)
That's what we've been hanging our hat on the last couple years. We're not fancy; everybody knows and we've just got to play hard-nosed football. (Quote by - Paul Barnes)
The vulgar mind fancies that good judgment is implied chiefly in the capacity to censure; and yet there is no judgment so exquisite as that which knows properly how to approve. (Quote by - Walter Gilmore Simms)
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. (Quote by - Samuel Richardson)
We fancied him for the Gold Cup, and he looked a million dollars for it. (Quote by - David Johnson)
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky - fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will. (Quote by - Frank Gelett Burgess)
We're not real fancy in what we do, and we don't have a lot of plays. That doesn't mean that what we do isn't complicated. We're fortunate we've got a seasoned group, an experienced line, and we work hard at what we do. We're always forced to adjust, because people are coming up with different ways to defend our running attack. They know what we're doing; it's no secret. (Quote by - Glen Mason)
It's easier when you have someone in the post, rather than someone driving or doing something fancy. (Quote by - Cassie Hager)
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
What we found is that the signal is so bold and big, that you don't have to do any fancy statistics to beat it out of the data. It's just there, bang. And the odds are exceedingly good that the model did not trick us with this signal. (Quote by - Tim Barnett)
Some days I fancy him, others I want to flush hid head down the toilet.(Quote by - )
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. (Quote by - Ian Snell)
Beggars invention and makes fancy lame. (Quote by - William Cowper)
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion. (Quote by - Karel Reisz)
We have to get close to 40 shots again and keeping pounding the puck. Fancy passing plays, those things are not going to get it done. We have to keep driving the net and find a way to score goals. (Quote by - Brad Richards)
It's never needed vindication. It was that fancy stuff that needed to prove itself. (Quote by - Wellington Mara)
At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he said the whole idea was so disgusting that he could not entertain it for a moment. (Quote by - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson)
When last the young Orlando parted from you, He left a promise to return again Within a hour; and pacing through the forest, Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy, Lo, what befell! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
If you want to get really fancy and give it a lifelike face, take out sculpting tools ? a kitchen knife, a serving spoon ? and spend as much time as you want. (Quote by - Jim Sysko)
The figures being thrown around are just fanciful. They are absolutely, categorically wrong. (Quote by - Rob Clarke)
I went bright red when I met him. I really fancy him. (Quote by - Fearne Cotton)
Play solid half-court defense, don't do anything fancy, really kind of dumb our offense down. The kids really bought into it. (Quote by - Dan Zweifel)
Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions. (Quote by - Voltaire)
