I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
That's my takeaway from 'Scream' - I know I can fit in dog doors. You have to jimmy your body in a… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
I've never really cared much about money. I've got enough to live on. And it's not like I live in a fancy… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Pepperidge Farm bread. That's fancy bread. You can tell it's fancy because it's wrapped twice. You open it, and it still isn't… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted… — John Milton Copy Share Image
How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor Falstaff, although… — John Keats Copy Share Image
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest,… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
The Victorian house and lots of other buildings weren't oppressive in themselves. They were often very airy and gingerbready and fancy. But… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
A man goes to a fancy dress party dressed only in his Y-fronts. A woman comes up to him and says "What… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I cant sing that great and I havent yet found… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having… — Roy Wood Copy Share Image
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth,… — Bernard Barton Copy Share Image
When I moved to New York, I started switching fragrances. Between different seasons I would change fragrance, or if I was going… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes… Each exists, apartand independently, in the bosom… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does… — Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans Copy Share Image
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy:… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have… — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
I am so pathetic with machines in real life, it's not a joke. I'd rather walk, or even run, than take the… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
As you may or may not know, in keeping with the high-class tone of Beverly Hills, our police force is probably the… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
The image foreigners have of French cuisine is fattening and very fancy food. But it's not true - French food isn't just… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image