Fancy Quotes - Page 33

• Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

  John Mayer

  Color, People, Missing

  "The Best Excellently Random Horror Movie Performances" by Lauren Sarner, www.inverse.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Mean, Men, Judging

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

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• I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

  Thomas Merton

  People, Body, Conformity

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

  Susan Orlean

  Mother, Party, Home

  "Bulge" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

  Camille Paglia

  Years, Criticism, Jargon

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• Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Italian, Ingredients, Fussy

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• I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Looks, Care

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• Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.

  Ginger Rogers

  Motivational, Dance, Average

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

  Marquis de Sade

  Principles, Moral, Idle

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

  Maria Sharapova

  Friends, Party, Good Friend

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• I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

  Matt Smith

  Dresses, Honest, Being Honest

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

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• 'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

  Matt Taibbi

  Gambling, Profit, Term

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• In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself.

  Emma Watson

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.

  Shaun White

  Nice, Simple, Skins

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• I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

  Kate Winslet

  Sexy, Teens, Kind

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• You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.

  Helen Fisher

  Thinking, Knowing, Fancy Cars

  "DNA Dating: Finding Your Genetic Match", abcnews.go.com. February 21, 2009.

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• One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.

  Caitlin Moran

  Home, Fake, Boss

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• She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

  Lewis Carroll

  Flames, Remember, Alice Adventures In Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll (2014). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Reality, Thinking

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• With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Window Panes, Space

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1969, Delphi Classics

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• The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of man who have folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

  Adam Smith

  Exercise, Men, Hands

  Adam Smith, Bruce Mazlish (2003). “The Wealth of Nations: Representative Selections”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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• Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, Imagination, Kind

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• One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Taken, Omission, Devil

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• There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Night, Reality

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Hands, Doubt

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