#fancy

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding." ↗

— John Searle

#block #common #discussions #fancy #finds

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#childhood #four #infancy #man #obsolescence

It's so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. ↗

— Nicole Miller

#everything #fancy #hire #just #them

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

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#book #closed #fancy #flight #man

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

#best #fancy #highest #investments #neighborhoods

But the thing which had made him fall for her, fall properly, was the way she seemed so calm and so quiet and so sad. Surrounded by noisy bankers showing off, and their variously pushy or beady or anxious or competitive wives, she seemed to be from somewhere else; a place where people carried their own burdens; a grander and realer and more honourable place. Roger didn't know that Matya spent a lot of that evening thinking about home, but he could tell that she was thinking about something, and it was that other thing which, for him, did it. ↗

— John Lanchester

#crushes #desire #fancy #home #love

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#deal #endeavor #existence #facts #fancy

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#anyone #away #commercial #england #fancy

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#faith #illusions #infancy #life #sleep

Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#love #marrying #love