The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints. — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But… — Adelaide Anne Procter Copy Share Image
To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
I have high heels in my bags if I need them for a shoot. But I like sneakers. I like being comfortable.… — Bobbi Brown Copy Share Image
I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way… — Geoff Nicholson Copy Share Image
Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I suppose trying not to fancy Richard Gere - that's been quite hard! — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make. — John Suckling Copy Share Image
