Fancy Quotes
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I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
Octavia E. Butler -
Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.
Jon Bon Jovi
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When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
Oliver Kahn -
I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.
Yasujirō Ozu -
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.
Paul Auster -
I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
Flavor Flav -
They're pretty simple. They don't have a lot of fancy gingerbread details. Everything is straight and flat and usually one-story.
Jane Powell -
You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast
Jon Bon Jovi
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We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.
Rachel Grace Held -
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.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I'm not a designer, nor do I fancy myself a designer.
Imran Amed -
Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!
Walt Disney -
For when one has set his heart upon an idea—which is, perhaps, nothing but the creation of his own fancy, as unsubstantial as the castle of a dream—his powers are thenceforth used for the single purpose of making the picture of his imagination stand out as vividly and as like reality as possible.
G. H. Pember
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If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.
Keith Matthew Thornton -
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.
H. P. Blavatsky -
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.
Oscar Wilde -
I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.
Rebecca Loos -
It is with just that hope that we welcome everything that tends to strengthen the fibre and develop the nature on more sides. When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
Margaret Fuller -
It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
Francis Bacon
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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.
Oscar Wilde -
Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
Isaac Watts -
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Vladimir Nabokov