Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will. — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
...Had dreams of fancy cars and limos, And all I wanted was somebody to listen to my demo. — Erick Sermon Copy Share Image
I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple. — Shaun White Copy Share Image
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
About once a month or so, my daughter and I go out on what we call a Fancy Dinner Date, just the… — Tim DeKay Copy Share Image
'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up Wounds when the balsam could not, and without The aid of salves:--to think… — William Cartwright Copy Share Image
Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We can't handle violence in women characters but we CAN handle what's done to women in our present tense every second of… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
He doesn't have demons. He's not Batman, he doesn't struggle with inner turmoil. The nature of this character is that he puts… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience. — Laozi Copy Share Image
New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy. — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I’d give just about anything if I could make you care,” he said. “Especially about me.” — Dia Reeves Copy Share Image
What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive. — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I love my home. It's the only thing I really spend money on. I don't really spend a lot of money on… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
“Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest. — Oliver Kahn Copy Share Image
I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image