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A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

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

Jane Bryant Quinn

Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

I didn't fancy any of my teachers.

I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Vladimir Nabokov