Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shirley Manson

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.

Matt Smith

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

Meg Cabot

But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning

Lisa Ling

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

Megan Smith

Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.

John Wooden

People ask me if I'd permit fancy things, like dunks. Well, if they did dunk, it was with no fancy flair. No behind-the-back dribbles or passes unless necessary. If it was for show, you were on the bench.

Mason Cooley

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

Michel de Montaigne

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

Observing the tradition from the outside, it looks like it's about looking fine in a big fancy hat. But it's about more than that.

Nothing else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so.

David Howell

One-up, one to play, you fancy your chances.

I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles.

Mads Mikkelsen

I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.

Herbie Hancock

I would be all over the piano, but Miles would play a few notes that would just wipe out all that fancy stuff I was playing.

Geraldine Brooks

I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.

Eugene Levy

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

Florence Nightingale

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

Hannah More

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

I don't think I'm a good ol' boy. Honestly, the last thing I am is a redneck. I like silk sheets, fancy cars, beautiful women, good whiskey.

Some of the stuff they do is so fancy it is probably collegiate level.

Lobbying is just a fancy word for talking to your legislators and ... telling them how you feel about an issue. It's something everyone can do.

Atticus Shaffer

We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me; whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood!

Carrie Brownstein

I have no problem spending money on a great meal with friends or a flight to see somebody that I love, versus something like a fancy car. I don't need a fancy car. I don't need a giant TV.

The apps are very simple. The terminals and networks are not up to the fancy things that are being touted.

That was a tough goal, but it was still a 3-2 game with a whole period left to play so we had plenty of time to come back. We just didn't generate much in the third period. We tried to be fancy too much, and didn't get the puck to the net.

I tend to try to support women artists. Women often don't get as much attention. I thought it would be nice to have a group show with all women involved with a fancy lady theme to work with.

Michael Vick

We don't see too much of a spy look anymore, ... because of our run game and because of some of the things that we do. We see more straight-up coverage. ... They try to stop me that way and not be fancy with it.

Henry David Thoreau

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

Jeff Greenfield

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

Jeff Greenfield

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.