Quotes on Fancy

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

Author: Edward Barnard

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

Author: Julie Benz

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!

Author: Patsy Cline

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

Author: Marie Corelli

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

Author: Ray Davies

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

Author: Charles Dickens

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.

Author: Minnie Driver

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

Author: Maria Edgeworth

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

Author: Jodie Foster

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

Author: Barry Gibb

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Author: Johann Goethe

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

Author: Jeff Greenfield

Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.

Author: Owen Hart

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

Author: Lafcadio Hearn

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

Author: John Hooker

You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests.

Author: Henry Irving

When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

Author: Oliver Kahn

I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

Author: Frank Lampard

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Author: Walter Landor

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

Author: John Lyly

Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton.

Author: John Motson

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

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

Author: Colin Powell

I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way.

Author: Kelly Preston

I didn't fancy any of my teachers.

Author: Katie Price

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

Author: Willard Quine

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

Author: Jane Quinn

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Author: Charles Reade

I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

Author: Janet Reno

If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.'

Author: Lee Ryan

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."

Author: John Searle

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.

Author: William Smith

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

Author: Terence Stamp

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great.

Author: Roy Wood