Quotes About Fancy

I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.

During a period of life when most of us do not have fancy watches or cars, music becomes a cheap, socially important signal of distinction. We are trying on, like silk-screened T-shirts, various identities.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

What relish is in this? How runs the stream? Or I am mad, or else this is a dream. Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.

If you borrowed the very moonbeams for your head-dress, if you were a hundred times more beautiful than my fancy can paint, you would be as nothing to me,—less than nothing, because an object of aversion.

The future irrupts at all times, wanting to actualize itself in every decision we make; it tries, as hard as it can, to become the past. This is what distinguishes the future from mere fancy. The future happens. The

Soon this mass of ideas became harmonized, took life, seemed, as it were, to become a living individual and moved in the midst of those domains of fancy, where the soul loves to give full rein to its wild creations.

An expensive play toy. It's different, so people want it. Then they get bored, look for something newer, better. I don't work that way." A slow nod of a face badly in need of a shave. "I don't either." I slipped my hand from under his, picked up the Stinger again. "There's much to be said for dependability. Reliability. Consistency." I held it up, as if in inspection. it was plan and functional compared to the sleek Carver. "It's not fancy. No Frills. But it will never, ever let me down.

Back in the early 1980s when rappers couldn't perform in the fancy venues because the police were too racist and scared, it was the punk venues letting them in to perform.

Before I could reach any decision, Rita came back with Lily Anne. "Would you like to burp her, Dexter?" she said with a Madonna-like smile—the Madonna in the paintings, not the one with the fancy bra.

I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy.

We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.

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

He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.

You guys, you people, you all run on one big engine, all the same for everybody, the whole world over. Know the name of that engine? Love? she speculated. Good try, but completely wrong, sorry. The name of the engine is story...If you want to get fancy, we could use the word narrative...And what does narrative need? The presence of evil, that's what. Doity Toid and the Eel

I am putting out the brown suit, sir.' 'No, I think I'll wear the blue with the faint red stripe.' 'Not the blue with the faint red stripe, sir.' 'But I rather fancy myself in it.' 'Not the blue with the faint red stripe, sir.' 'Oh, all right, have it your own way.' 'Very good, sir. Thank you, sir.

Formal writing does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clear, clean, maximally considerate writing.

Sex is what you boast about when you have exterior signs of wealth. It's a way of saying, Look, I might no own a fancy sport coat, or even a carry-on bag, but I do have two women and all the intercourse I can handle.