Fancy Quotes - Page 16

• People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.

  Jack Johnson

  Lonely, Sadness, Animal

  Song: The Horizon Has Been Defeated, Album: On And On

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• In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man.

  Mart Crowley

  Spring, Men, Young

  Mart Crowley (2003). “The Band Plays: The Boys in the Band [and Its Sequel] The Men from the Boys”, p.115, Taylor & Francis

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• 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.

  Michelle Forbes

  Different, Looks, Actors

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• Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Bills, Reincarnation

  "Far Left Brands O'Reilly's Obama Interview Racist". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. February 14, 2011.

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• I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baby

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of limits of significance. What would actually happen would be that I should make out Pt (normal) and say to myself that would be about 50:1; pretty good but as it may not be normal we'd best not be too certain, or 100:1; even allowing that it may not be normal it seems good enough and whether one would be content with that or would require further work would depend on the importance of the conclusion and the difficulty of obtaining suitable experience.

  William Sealy Gosset

  Science, Giving, Would Be

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• Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not try to do those fancy financial instruments?

  George W. Bush

  Business, Wall, Hangover

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• No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

  Paloma Faith

  Taken, Thinking

  "'No one ever chats me up': Paloma Faith on being single, socialist and sensitive" by Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. February 20, 2013.

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• I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.

  Alan Jackson

  People, Wife, Likes

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

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• That's my takeaway from 'Scream' - I know I can fit in dog doors. You have to jimmy your body in a certain position and really hope you're not wearing something super fancy.

  Rose McGowan

  Dog, Doors, Body

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• I really have paid my dues! When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days I remind myself of that.

  Rita Ora

  These Days, Hotel, Dues

  "The suite life of Rita Ora" by Gordon Smart, www.thesun.co.uk. October 4, 2012.

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• Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.

  Lev Yilmaz

  Expression, Ideas, Brain

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• I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.

  David Morrissey

  Party, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.

  Aesop

  Lying, Grieving, Gold

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.30, Aesop

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• Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.

  Thomas S. Power

  Peace, Jobs, Military

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• Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Evil, Wish

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.342

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• What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Matter, Mere

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Firefly, Dark, Light

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.437, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Failure, Character, People

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• Fancy tortures more people than does reality

  Ouida

  Reality, People, Doe

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• All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

  William Shakespeare

  Motive, Courses, Impediments

  William Shakespeare (2001). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Father, Latin, Hymns

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2526, Delphi Classics

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• And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.

  Philip Freneau

  Self, Long, Shadow

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.813, Library of Alexandria

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• Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Humorous, Imagination

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• Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

  John Dryden

  Dream, Sleep, Reason

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.362

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