Fancy Quotes

It's so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

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

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.

I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.