Fancy Store Quotes

#1. I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or 'Sherry,' I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

Frankie Valli

#2. Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

Douglas Adams

#3. The boy may wrestle, when Night
working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.

John Armstrong

#4. In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.

Hideo Kojima

#5. But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

George Saintsbury

#6. One must work with time and not against it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#7. People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

Susan Estrich

#8. Don't hate the Meat Lord, Atticus. Just offer him steak sauce and words of praise.

Kevin Hearne

#9. I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote ... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.

Shiloh Walker

#10. Delay not to seize the hour!

Aeschylus

#11. No one will take my Elena from me. I'll destroy the world before I allow that to happen

Nalini Singh

#12. A feeling of foreboding, and, indeed, of physical as well as psychological discomfort, had come over him. He suddenly recalled - and this did nothing at all to help - a phrase he had once come across: Someone is walking over your grave.

Arthur C. Clarke

#13. I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt ... I can't compete with that stuff.

Matt Groening

#14. A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty. No, it is not possible that minds degraded by a multitude of futile concerns would ever raise themselves to anything great. Even when they had the strength for that, the courage would be missing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#15. Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are means to the individual's liberation. We do not perceive how a man may be armed and at the same time bereft of his freedom.

John Keegan

#16. Every introvert alive knows the exquisite pleasure of stepping from the clamor of a party into the bathroom and closing the door

Sophia Dembling

#17. The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

E.W. Howe