Fancy Quotes

845 quotes by 669 authors

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to… — Paul Auster
I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no… — Tyra Banks
I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there… — Drew Barrymore
I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want it to be as close… — Drew Barrymore
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of… — Charles Baudelaire
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are… — Scott Adams
I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it. — Glenn Beck
My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting. — Ben Affleck
They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it… — Jo Brand
The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints. — Steve Carell
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the… — Benjamin Carson
I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors. — Helena Bonham Carter
I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by… — Helena Bonham Carter
In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which… — Julia Child
People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of… — Ted Allen
The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking… — Kurt Lewin
We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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