Fancy Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

  Eugene Levy

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• Generally speaking, I'm a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a regular outing. It's nothing fancy - just a classic, well-cut suit with clean lines and beautiful tailoring. It's timeless and you can mix and match it with anything to dress up or dress down.

  Matthew Rhys

  Beautiful, Cutting, Men

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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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• I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'

  Steve Vai

  Running, Real, Kids

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

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• I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

  Randy Houser

  Writing, Play, Long

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• I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

  Michael Bassey

  Color, Brain, Faces

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• An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

  George Haven Putnam

  People, Heaven, Littles

  George Haven Putnam (2008). “Abraham Lincoln (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.238, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.

  Norton Juster

  Character, Simple, Essence

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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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• I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path-cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Spiritual, Healing, Destiny

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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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• The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Eye, Half

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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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• Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Love Is, Men

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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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