Fancy Quotes - Page 35

• So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Home, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.348, Scholastic Inc.

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• He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, World, Imagine

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• O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet

  William Shakespeare

  Ears, Daggers, Way

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• You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Artist, People

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea. But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing, and tried to think nothing.

  Herman Melville

  Eye, Heart, Men

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.108, Velvet Element Books

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• What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair. .... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Girl, Ties, Hair

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• There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Facts

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Regret, First Love

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 31, song (added 1850)

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• Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.

  Aldo Leopold

  Men, Civilization, Support

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.178, Oxford University Press, USA

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• For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror.

  Jens Peter Jacobsen

  Dream, Mind, Suffering

  Jens Peter Jacobsen (2008). “Niels Lyhne”, p.45, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Living in the middle of beautiy like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wonderment if He doesn't want everything to be good and perfect and right and healthy? But we can spoil His good work. When we mess things up, then we shouldn't blame Him and try to make ourselves feel better by contending that it's what He wanted.

  Catherine Marshall

  Feel Better, Ideas, Perfect

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• Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Children, Believe

  Lewis Carroll (1993). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-glass”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

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• Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

  Michael Pollan

  Mom, Culture, Courses

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• I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm. ............... It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood, and tortoiseshell buttons.

  Charlaine Harris

  Names, Coats, Red

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1004, Penguin

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• Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood

  Raymond Chandler

  Mistake, Stupid, Animal

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• I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Strong, Heart, Rome

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.772, e-artnow

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• She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant her future. A moon-daisy dropped to the floor, down from her hair, like a faintly derisive sign from heaven.

  Angela Carter

  Girl, Eye, Moon

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• The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their bones and sinews and not wear them like fancy dress.

  Katherine Paterson

  Hurt, Grace, Challenges

  "Welcome to the World of Katherine Paterson". FAQ, katherinepaterson.com.

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• Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him.

  Donald Miller

  Mean, Hair, Clothes

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

  Lewis Carroll

  Flames, Going Out, Looks

  Lewis Carroll (1911). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.17, Branden Books

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• It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it doesn't care if you habitually pass by on the other side. It's just there for when you need it. Dedicated to the patron saint of lost causes, St. Jude's is an old old place... St. Jude's isn't a place for comfort for frills and fancies and the trappings of religion. just a place where you can talk to your god and sometimes get an answer.

  Simon R. Green

  Usual, Comfort, Saint

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• i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Winning, Past

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• It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment. They put the idea into Earthlings' heads that the whole Universe had been created by one big animal who looked just like them. He sat on a throne with a lot of less fancy thrones all around him. When people died they got to sit on those other thrones forever because they were such close relatives of the Creator. The people down here just ate that up!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Animal, Ideas

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.141, Penguin

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• Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.

  Rick Riordan

  Games, Busy, Demon

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.

  Janette Rallison

  People, House, Trying

  Janette Rallison (2009). “All's Fair in Love, War and High School”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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