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The way I see it, the expensive people who get hired when you have money are the fancy people who tell you what you can't do.
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 time comes.
While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.
In combat flying, fancy precision aerobatic work is really not of much use. Instead, it is the rough maneuver which succeeds.
I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles.
In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself.
[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
For years I didn't really fancy America. I hated it when I first went to LA, it's like a dirty Sydney. But having a job helped.
absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.
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 any more.
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets.
The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.
In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.
Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!
I played everything, but the games that kept me up and night and tickled my fancy were the larger role-playing games like 'Ultima.'
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.
I don't hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don't trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.
Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at home.
The guys that drive Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Bentley GTs, it's because they want to flaunt the fancy car and get the girls and stuff.
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
Can you make fancy patterns of water that actually have some computation power? I'm betting that fluids are complex enough to do this.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
We get to wear a lot of pretty and fancy clothes for our performances and videos, so in my daily life, I like to be really comfortable.
I feel like I see more and more Neapolitan style, that I call 'fancy pizza' - that's not my cup of tea; I think it all tastes the same.
But he's looking for love in all the wrong places. Like fancy under catalogs At least he knows enough not to date while he's campaigning
To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.
I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
Earth's biosphere gave birth to humans and our thoughts, which are now reshaping its planetary cycles. A planet with brains? Fancy that.
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
The stock market is for people who live in Manhattan and summer in the Hamptons, for people who can afford fancy cars - a Mercedes, say.
Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used
Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.
I wanted something that was really 'us,' but not typical engagement photos in any way. We're not a fancy couple. More jeans and T-shirts.
Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll be hilarious'.
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.
I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket.
If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me an A.