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Quotes About Fanciful

I love being fancy.
~ Jane O'Connor
There's no point considering something which is very unrealistic.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
The very fact that about half of our thoughts are daydreams suggests there may well be some advantages to a mind that can entertain the fanciful.
~ Daniel Goleman
The facts are nothing,' she rejoined. 'I have only my own impressions to confess—and you will very likely think me a fanciful fool when you hear what they are. No matter. I will do my best to content you—I will begin with the facts that you want. Take my word for it, they won't do much to help you.
~ Wilkie Collins
To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.
~ Henry Tuckerman
He was asked to draw a rabbit that wouldn't keep still as he drew it—as soon as it had paws it scratched itself luxuriously and then went hopping off around the page, nibbling at the other questions, so that he had to chase it with the pencil to finish filling in the fur. He wound up pacifying it with some hastily sketched radishes and then drawing a fence around it to keep it in line.
~ Lev Grossman
I didn't love stickers and unicorns and stuff, but just if I were to ride on the back of a beast to work, I want it to be a frickin' unicorn.
~ Laura Benanti
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
~ Patti Smith
Human consciousness is a big game of make-believe. It's nothing more than mutually fanciful speculation, and the self, consequently, is nothing more than a ridiculous illusion at best and a destructive delusion at worst. We can't know each other's perspective, we only pretend we can. That's why people walk around so terrified of each other most of the time.
~ Unknown
Let me tell you, an I had the shaping of things in this world, ye should all three have been clothed in the finest silks, and ride upon milk-white horses, with pages at your side, and feed upon nothing but whipped cream and strawberries; for such a life would surely befit your looks." At
~ Howard Pyle
Am I athletic? In my dreams.
~ Hugh Bonneville
He paused by the window, looking up into a lavender sky, fingers pressed against the icy glass. No stars tonight; the snowflakes came down out of the dark, rushing towards him, endless, uncountable. Silent, too, but not like the stars. Falling snow whispered secrets to itself. "And you are a fanciful idiot," he said outloud.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Now observe; if the artist does not understand the sacredness of the truth of Impression, and supposes that, once quitting hold of his first thought, he may by Philosophy compose something prettier than he saw and mightier than he felt, it is all over with him. Every such attempt at composition will be utterly abortive, and end in something that is neither true nor fanciful; something geographically useless, and intellectually absurd.
~ John Ruskin
I like bonkers!
~ Unknown
Zou Mortimer soms zelf een stravagante zijn? - Nick
~ Mary Hoffman
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
~ Patti Smith