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Quotations regarding 'Fancy'

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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
Joan Didion, American Author (1934-  )
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.
Minnie Driver, English Actress (1971-  )
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
Maria Edgeworth, Irish Novelist (1767-1849)
I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
Jodie Foster, American Actress (1962-  )
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.
Barry Gibb, English Musician (1946-  )
The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.
Todd Gitlin, American Sociologist
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet (1749-1832)
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.
Hugh Grant, English Actor (1960-  )
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.
Stephen Greenblatt, American Critic (1943-  )
Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .
Jeff Greenfield, American Journalist (1943-  )
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.
Ian Hacking, Canadian Philosopher (1936-  )
Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid.
Owen Hart, Canadian Entertainer (1965-1999)
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
Lafcadio Hearn, Japanese Author (1850-1904)
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.
Lillian Hellman, American Dramatist (1907-1984)
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.
John Lee Hooker, American Musician (1917-2001)
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Horace, Roman Poet
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.
David Hume, Scottish Philosopher (1711-1776)
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.
Henry Irving, English Actor (1838-1905)
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson, English Author (1709-1784)
When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
Oliver Kahn, German Athlete (1969-  )
 
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