Quotes with fancy

  • For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
  • This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
  • My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
  • I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like 'See, I'm not a nerd. Look, I'm in 'Vogue.'
  • When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
  • Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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  • Oscar Wilde All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Voltaire It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Thomas Moore Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet, when absent souls in fancy meet.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • William Shakespeare Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bayard Taylor An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • William Shakespeare Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Billy Gardell Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some weight. Maybe, who knows, I'll hire myself a trainer and a fancy cook. In five years, maybe I'll be an action hero. Then again, maybe I'll just be this guy. Who knows? But the fun part is embracing the human side of that.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Carlo Collodi Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Albert Claude For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Jean Paul Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Russell Wayne Baker Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
    Russell Wayne Baker
    American writer (1925 - 2019)
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  • Charles Baudelaire I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Brooke Shields I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like 'See, I'm not a nerd. Look, I'm in 'Vogue.'
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Jeremy Taylor If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • H. P. Lovecraft It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Voltaire It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ben Affleck My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Oh, when I was in love with you
    Then I was clean and brave,
    And miles around the wonder grew
    How well did I behave.

    And now the fancy passes by
    And nothing will remain,
    And miles around they'll say that I
    Am quite myself again.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Caitlin Moran One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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