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Fancy Quotes

"We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great."

Roy Wood, English Musician

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

Willard Van Orman Quine, American Philosopher

Fancy, Man, Observation

"The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin."

William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist

Fancy, Interest, Myths, Worship

"Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton."

John Motson, British Celebrity

"You speak into it and everything is recorded, voice, tone, intonation, everything. You turn a little wheel, and forth it comes, and can be repeated ten thousand times. Only fancy what this suggests."

Henry Irving, English Actor

"I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be."

Janet Reno, American Public Servant

"I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy."

Terence Stamp, British Actor

"I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy."

Julie Benz, American Actress

"I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern."

Jodie Foster, American Actress

"I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it."

Julie Delpy, French Actress

Fancy, Hate, Holiday, Islands

"I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks."

John Lee Hooker, American Musician

Fancy, Guitar, Play, Want

"I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!"

Patsy Cline, American Musician

Fancy, Today, Will

"I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then."

Barry Gibb, English Musician

Fancy, Night, Sound

"If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.'"

Lee Ryan, British Musician

"I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way."

Kelly Preston, American Actress

"I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him."

Minnie Driver, English Actress

Fancy, Man, Old, Want

"Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid."

Owen Hart, Canadian Entertainer

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

Edward E. Barnard, American Scientist

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

Ray Davies, English Musician

"I didn't fancy any of my teachers."

Katie Price, english Model

Fancy, Teachers

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