#fancy

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#fancy #judge #lord #spell #taste

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. ↗

— Joan Didion

#definition #extraterrestrial #fancy #higher #life

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#advice #fancy #give #had #i

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. ↗

— Lord Byron

#christianity #damned #fancying #great #great mind

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor. ↗

— Albert Claude

#basic #billion #cell #distant #endless

Nations, like men, have their infancy. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#like #men #nations #their

I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#been #does #else #fancy #fine

I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#fancy #got #hundred #i #made

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before. ↗

— Hart Crane

#before #bridge #contented #ever #fancy

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. ↗

— Isambard K. Brunel

#am #design #engineering #etc #fancy