Quotes About Fanciful

She played upon her music-box a fancy air by chance, And straightway all her polka-dots Began a lively dance.

Scientific journals must remain the preserve of articles capable of affecting the consensus of the scientific public. Books are the place for opinions, speculations, and fanciful accounts of ricocheting planets.

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.

That's what my wardrobe room looks like. It's all costumes and props. It's ridiculous.

Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

The sentence I most sympathized with is 'Whatever hangups this indicated, I'd preferred men who seemed perfectly ordinary' - my sentiments, precisely, about life in general which I don't like to see pushed to fanciful extremes because it's good enough as it is.

One end of the spectrum of fantastical thinking is labeled "crackpot," and the other "visionary.

'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.

Over one million people died in the orgy of religious killing that attended the partitioning of India and Pakistan. The two countries have since fought three official wars, suffered a continuous bloodletting at their shared border, and are now poised to exterminate one another with nuclear weapons simply because they disagree about "facts" that are every bit as fanciful as the names of Santa's reindeer.

By degrees the sun disappeared behind the western horizon; but as though to prove the truth of the fanciful ideas in heathen mythology, its indiscreet rays reappeared on the summit of every wave, as if the god of fire had just sunk upon the bosom of Amphitrite, who in vain endeavored to hide her lover beneath her azure mantle.

it is not too fanciful to guess that the plan's inventor was the man

As often is the case with addictions, the fanciful notion of a gradual discontinuance only provided a comforting pretext for more sustained indulgence.

Choice is simply a fanciful shorthand for biological processes we do not yet apprehend.

Well, perhaps she had a little of his pride. She'd certainly found plenty when he was making her sound like some lofty lady who couldn't live without "fanciful creatures of sugar paste" to decorate her birthday cake.

But complex and fanciful religions have been founded upon such simple and deceptive experiences, giving mythical names to vague entities, and creating an enormous vehicle for compounded superstitious belief. Have not these religions been more evil than good?

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

We believe that she is committed to meeting our needs, that he loves us as much as we love him and would never do anything to hurt us. That thinking is always fanciful. Not that we are insincere in what we think and feel, but we are unrealistic. We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature, we are egocentric.

Ma no, anche l'estate, invece, sarebbe tornata immancabilmente, uguale al solito. Non la si può uccidere, essa è un drago invulnerabile che sempre rinasce, con la sua fanciullezza meravigliosa. Ed era un'orrida gelosia che mi amareggiava, questa: di pensare all'isola di nuovo infuocata dall'estate, senza di me!

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.