Fancifully Quotes

#1. A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

Julia Glass

#2. Fancifully, I had thought I would feel the exact moment if anything ever happened to Scarlett, even if she wasn't nearby. Some kind of immense magnetic disturbance as our two hemispheres divided and went their separate ways.

Keith Houghton

#3. I suppose the things that transform your life don't appear as you fancifully imagine they will.

Andrew Smith

#4. Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.

John Shelby Spong

#6. For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memory; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen, that must happen. Myth will become reality, however sceptical we might be.

Julian Barnes

#7. My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

Rupert Everett

#8. One cardinal rule of American journalism is that The New York Times Sunday Magazine is a chore, a bore, and a penance to be endured.

Martin Nolan

#9. Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#10. You can't keep doing the same thing and expect a new result.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. A book can be an escape from the house.

Dore Ashton

#12. Women and people of color and young people especially are about to have this amazing opportunity to shift the political conversation in this country for the good of all of us, toward more progressive policies, and it's a really amazing and important time to be part of that.

Sandra Fluke

#13. Walk out," he repeated. "We need to talk."
"About how you need to sacrifice me to get a human body?" I asked, my tone light, my insides feeling leaden.
"That might be cute if you thought it was true.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#14. You had to invent something. It's not possible to leave it blank. The mind
won't let you.

Paul Auster

#15. Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

Tony Greig

#16. He tried to think of all the people in his life as chemicals, the uncertainty of mixing them together, the potential for explosions and scarring.

Kevin Wilson

#17. They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

Ginger Baker