We happened to be in the studio next door and I think Noel Redding came around and said, 'Do you fancy having a sing on this?' We just went and did it and it was great.

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

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."

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.'

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.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.