Fancy Sounding Quotes

#1. Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.

Jenna McCarthy

#2. Damn you, Anaxantis. You and your brother were supposed to sit on your princely asses, organize the occasional banquet, use your high sounding titles to ravish the local girls, or boys, or sheep, whatever takes your fancy for all I care, and leave serious matters to your elders.

Andrew Ashling

#3. I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.

Karen DeCrow

#4. Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

Graham Greene

#5. I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is air tight.

James Ellroy

#6. I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

Mahalia Jackson

#7. We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

John Irving