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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.

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.

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets.

I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

I used to say, for me, writing was like walking a high wire, and heroin made me forget there was no net. Which is a fancy way of saying dope made me forget how shitty I felt for being on dope.

Jealous of the actors now, are we?" "What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable." Oh, this was going to be good.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

I've been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants. I'm more of a basic eater. I still go into Cracker Barrel. Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I'm making.

I've seen a lot of movies that were great and scary, but not particularly fancy in their filmmaking or performance. And they're still scary, and I think a good horror movie should be scary above all things.

Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.

Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It's about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.

Keep engaged in the all new popular and fancy, positive side of things!

Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark.

Most transvestites fancy girls.

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

My favorite food in the world is Mexican food. I'm not a dessert person. I'm more of a crunchy, salty girl. I could live on chips and salsa. I would take a Mexican meal over some fancy French cuisine anytime.

Maybe I'm going from that tomboy-ish state to feeling a bit more womanly. I've enjoyed wearing some fancy frocks. It's nice once in a while.

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

My lusts they do me leave, My fancies all be fled, And tract of time begins to weave Grey hairs upon my head.

Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

One of the things I like to pack, that I take with me all the time, is my Virgensita de Guadalupe. It doesn't take much room in your suitcase. If you have one that isn't so fancy, you can use it on the plane when you're scared.

Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream. Today my hopes are higher, and I covet here below nothing but obscurity and peace.

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

Of course I still fancy girls but right now I'm dating a guy and I couldn't be happier.

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

One of the great dangers of transformational work is that the ego attempts to sidestep deep psychological work by leaping into the transcendent too soon. This is because the ego always fancies itself much more 'advanced' than it actually is.

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy