I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
~By Willard Van Orman Quine ~
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
~By Shirley Manson ~
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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'.
~By Charles Dickens ~
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.
~By Carlo Collodi ~
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
~By Karel Reisz ~
I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
~By Jodie Foster ~
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
~By Colin Powell ~
I fancy our chances at the European Championships.
~By Frank Lampard ~
I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.
~By Janet Reno ~
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
~By John Updike ~
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .
~By Jeff Greenfield ~
I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
~By Antonio Porchia ~
I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.
~By Terence Stamp ~
I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.
~By Kristi Noem ~
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.
~By Henry Irving ~
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
~By Leon Kass ~
Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
~By Alice Miller ~
Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
~By Owen Hart ~
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.
~By Bernard Barton ~
I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
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.
~By Kelly Preston ~
Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.
~By Hugh Grant ~
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.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
~By Ian Hacking ~
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.
~By Marie Corelli ~
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
~By Charles Reade ~
There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
~By Walter Lord ~
Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.
~By Thomas Jane ~
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
~By Jack Kingston ~
We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.
~By R. D. Laing ~
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
Nations, like men, have their infancy.
~By Henry Bolingbroke ~
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
~By Billie Jean King ~
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
~By Jane Bryant Quinn ~
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.
~By Minnie Driver ~
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
~By Horace ~
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
~By Robert Owen ~
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.'
~By Lee Ryan ~
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
~By Madame Swetchine ~
I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.
~By William Banting ~
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
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.
~By Roy Wood ~
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
~By Edward E. Barnard ~
I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.
~By James Longstreet ~
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
~By Cliff Burton ~
A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.
~By Judd Nelson ~
Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.
~By William Lilly ~
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.
~By John Lee Hooker ~
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
~By Isambard K. Brunel ~
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.
~By Gerry Mulligan ~
When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.
~By Prince William ~
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
I didn't fancy any of my teachers.
~By Katie Price ~
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
~By Robert South ~
I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
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.'
~By Count Basie ~
When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
~By Oliver Kahn ~
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
~By David Hume ~
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."
~By John Searle ~
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
~By Henri Bergson ~
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
~By Jean Paul ~
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
~By John Lyly ~
I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.
~By Julie Benz ~
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton.
~By John Motson ~
No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
~By Ray Davies ~
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
~By Maria Edgeworth ~
Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.
~By David Knopfler ~
So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
~By Mika Waltari ~
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
~By Art Linkletter ~
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
~By Adam Clarke ~
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
~By Samuel Prout ~
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
~By Mary Astell ~
I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!
~By Patsy Cline ~
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
~By Herbert Read ~
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