Fancy Quotes

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

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.

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."

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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

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

'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'.

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.

If you've ever tried ba travel, I wouldn't recommend it-- unless of course you fancy turning into a phantom chicken and rafting uncontrollably through the currents of the Duat.

Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you.- Desmond Tutu In the end, kids won't remember that fancy toy or game you bought for them, they will remember the time you spent with them.

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Don't try to be fancy. Shoot for the center of mass. The world is full of decent people. Criminals we can do without.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

Look at you walkin' out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did, what you think you fancy huh?!

I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want it to be as close to Kraft Services as it can possibly get!

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

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

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

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

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

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.

The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.

If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.

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

Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

I made a terrible mistake last Christmas. My wife made me swear that I wouldn't give her a fancy gift. And I didn't.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

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