Fancy Quotes - Page 3

• I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.

  Tyra Banks

  Wall, People, Holes

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

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Book, Men, Flight

  "First Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality: Fundamental Problems and Readings in Philosophy". Book by Andrew Bailey (p. 300), August 6, 2004.

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Work, Nice

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• When I was trying to impress Kate, I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.

  Prince William

  Fire, Trying, Would Be

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• Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Discovery, Blood, Ideas

  Henrik Ibsen (1907). “Rosmersholm: A Drama”

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• I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him

  Minnie Driver

  Men, Thinking, Want

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• And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

  Hart Crane

  Writing, Years, Bridges

  Hart Crane (1965). “The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932”

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• I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Order, Long

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1954). “Arcana Coelestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scripture Or Word of the Lord Unfolded. Together with Wonderful Things Seen in the World of Spirits and in the Heaven of Angels”

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• Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Cooking

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.95

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• We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.

  Henry Taylor

  Running, Tired, Rocks

  Sir Henry Taylor (1852). “Philip van Artvelde; a dramatic romance ... Second edition”, p.32

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• Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Luxury, Disrespect

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.349

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• But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

  Goldwin Smith

  Running, Hype, Mind

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

  David Knopfler

  Vacation, Fancy Cars, Albums

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• The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Differences, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1846). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John (Lord Bolingbroke). To which are Added, The Universal Prayer, An Essay on the Knowledge and Character of Men, and Other Pieces, with Notes”, p.61

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• I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to.

  Andrea Corr

  Should, Wells, Feels

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• There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

  Goldwin Smith

  Art, Believe, People

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

  Jodie Foster

  Fate, Destiny, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

  Oscar Wilde

  Selfish, People, Secret

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.

  William Banting

  Indulge In, Watches, Add

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Style, Murder, Prose

  Lolita pt. 1, ch. 1 (1955)

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• The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

  Horace

  Power, Risk, Poet

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• Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

  Samuel Alexander

  Fruition, Impulse, Enjoyment

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• Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

  Samuel Prout

  Doe, Sentimental, Combination

  Samuel Prout, Rudolph Ackermann (1838). “Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting”, p.7

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• To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Rivers, Heaven, Chinese

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories”, p.16, tredition

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