Fancy Text For Quotes

Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place ... and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another. ~ Geoff Nicholson

I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally dissolved the writer's block that had inhibited the author from starting work. I have since used it whenever I myself have been gripped by fear of the blank sheet in front of me. It is infallible, and its effect is always the same: the knot unravels and a stream of words gushes out on to the virgin paper. It acts like a magic spell and I sometimes fancy it really is one. But, even if it isn't the work of a sorcerer, it is certainly the most brilliant sentence any writer has ever devised. It runs: 'This is where my story begins.' ~ Walter Moers

I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace them with small words like 'nice' and 'big'. I've liked these words ever since I was told not to use them in English class at school. After that, I check that the sentences are short so as people won't get confused and I shorten all the chapters so they won't get bored. I can't read anything complicated these days, my attention span is too short. Everyone else probably feels the same. ~ Martin Millar

That which I call a text is practically everything… Speech is a text, gesture is a text, reality is a text in this new sense. This is not about re-establishing graphocentrism alongside logocentrism or phonocentrism or text-centrism. The text is not a centre. The text is an openness without borders, of ever-differentiating references. ~ Jacques Derrida

All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. ~ William Shakespeare

But this was fancy; she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn't done before. ~ Gregory Maguire

There is a fine line between reading a message from the text and reading one into the text. ~ John Corvino

In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man. ~ Mart Crowley

There is no such thing as chance in a text. Any text is the result of a repertoire, on conscious and unconscious levels, and can only be decoded by someone privy to the same repertoire. ~ Ivan Angelo

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'. ~ Jan Karon

Good web text has a lot in common with good print text. It's plain, concise, concrete and 'transparent': even on a personal site the text shouldn't draw attention to itself, only to its subject. ~ Crawford Kilian

A text is evolutionary by its very nature. ~ Reif Larsen

I live for the text. It's my job. ~ Ian McKellen

Jude: But I thought Fancy was the Slip Kid?
Olivia: Fancy?
Ruby: He nicknamed Clancy.
Olivia: Fancy sort of suits him. ~ Alexandra Bracken

When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them. ~ Orhan Pamuk

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. ~ Kevin McCloud

I don't live in a fancy neighborhood. ~ Judah Friedlander

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text? ~ Gayle King

I tend the mobile now
like an injured bird

We text, text, text
our significant words.

I re-read your first,
your second, your third,

look for your small xx,
feeling absurd.

The codes we send
arrive with a broken chord.

I try to picture your hands,
their image is blurred.

Nothing my thumbs press
will ever be heard.


"Text ~ Carol Ann Duffy

If you text someone, and you just get an emoticon back, it's over. ~ Riki Lindhome

Sometimes in our zeal to "apply" a text, we fail to read the text in its context. And more often than we may all care to admit, our frustrations over how to apply a text can be completely resolved with a more accurate interpretation. ~ Scot McKnight

Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain boredom), unsettles the reader's historical, cultural, psychological assumptions, the consistency of his tastes, values, memories, brings to a crisis his relation with language. ~ Roland Barthes

I can't text. My fingers are too big. ~ Denis Leary

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always. ~ Ray Davies

People ask me if I'd permit fancy things, like dunks. Well, if they did dunk, it was with no fancy flair. No behind-the-back dribbles or passes unless necessary. If it was for show, you were on the bench. ~ John Wooden

I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos. ~ Ashton Kutcher

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful ... and deadly. ~ Frank Scoblete

Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. ~ William Cowper

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it. ~ Joseph Joubert

Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail. ~ Tim Ferriss

On the one hand we need the image of "the text" in order to focus on anything at all; on the other hand we use the metaphor of "reading" to signal that our apprehension of a text will always be partial, that we never quite reach the "text itself," a realization that has led certain critics to question the very existence of such an object. ~ Espen J. Aarseth

A little of what you fancy does you good. ~ Marie Lloyd

I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket. ~ Meryl Streep

World is suddener than we fancy it. ~ Louis MacNeice

Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text. ~ Philip Pullman

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof. ~ Isaac Mayer Wise

The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing. ~ Roland Barthes

We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity ... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit. ~ Paulo Freire

She had such control of tone, in her text messages, she was the Edith Wharton of text messaging. ~ Keith Gessen

Text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, ~ Erin Hunter

My career wouldn't exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences. ~ Ezra Klein

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier. ~ Alberto Manguel

A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her. ~ Elizabeth Peters

You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. ~ Robert Gottlieb

Do not let fancy outrun your means. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I didn't fancy any of my teachers. ~ Katie Price

Fancy tortures more people than does reality ~ Ouida

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"
and we give it. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

World, O world, I follow my fancy, not yours! ~ Marty Rubin

The original text of New York is all below Chambers Street. ~ Pete Hamill

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored. ~ Gene Perret

Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him. ~ Billie Piper

Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday. ~ David Ogilvy

Fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. ~ William Cowper

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy. ~ Donald Miller

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past. ~ Giovanni Ruffini

I don't fancy myself as a very sarcastic person in real life. ~ Reggie Lee

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years. ~ Josh Billings

Is love a fancy, or a feeling? ~ Hartley Coleridge

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child! ~ John Milton

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal. ~ Mike DeWine

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain. ~ Mark Twain

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

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically. ~ James Boswell

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation. ~ Jacques Barzun

Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye. ~ Samuel Richardson

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. ~ Horace

I get a text from my grandfather informing me that my grandmother is cooking us dinner. His text ended with the word "roast," preceded by a hash tag. ~ Colleen Hoover

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness. ~ Samuel Johnson

One of my favorites to order in fancy restaurants is escargot. ~ Kirsten Prout

Don't be overwhelmed by a man's fancy car, fancy house or fancy clothes. It's really the person inside the care, house and clothes that matters. By the same token, don't be underwhelmed by a less-than-fancy car, house or clohtes. Women can earn the car and house themselves, and you can always buy your man nice clothes, too. ~ Sumiko Tan

Open text is one of a pair of terms popularized by Eco to refer to kinds of interpretative interactions between text and reader. An open text, unlike a closed one such as a work of popular fiction, is not aimed at a specific reader in a specific social context. It is also open in that its theme, structure and language are more complex, less explicit, more "open-ended": what other critics as Barthes in reception theory would call "Indeterminate". The open text constructs the model of its own reader as part of its structural strategy. ~ Katie Wales

The text is a limited field of possible constructions. ~ Paul Ricoeur

Nonetheless, the oyster, could it fancy, should fancy its excremental equipment a hot item, for what other among Creation's crapping creatures can convert its bodily wastes into treasure? ~ Tom Robbins

I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational. ~ Matt Mullenweg

Rigor is not an attribute of a text but rather a characteristic of our behavior with that text. ~ G. Kylene Beers

How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question: what part of a reader absorbs what part of a text?
I think that underneath, or alongside, a reader's conscious response to a text, whatever is needy in him is taking in whatever the text offers to assuage that need. ~ Diana Athill

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?' ~ William Shatner

Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase? ~ Jami Attenberg

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case. ~ Piers Anthony

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations. ~ David Knopfler

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. ~ Colin Powell

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema. ~ Albert Camus

As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text. ~ Nate Powell

so full of shapes is fancy ~ William Shakespeare

We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all. ~ Annie Dillard

She had received a text message from him: I had the urge to text somebody who's smart, hot, and sweet ... but sending messages to myself is just pathetic, so hi. ~ Suzanne Wright

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ~ Umberto Eco

Every text participates in one or several genres, there is no genreless text; there is always a genre and genres, yet such participation never amounts to belonging. ~ Jacques Derrida

I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like - I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is not very fancy, there is nothing hiding me from the audience. ~ Jeffrey Lewis

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest. ~ Matt Smith

I fancy you, he whispered. I fancy you a whole lot. ~ Mia Sheridan

Fancy Restaurant: one that serves cold soup on purpose. ~ Doug Larson

No text message will ever replace the first kiss. ~ Tom Brokaw

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted. ~ Seneca The Younger

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else. ~ Linda Ellerbee

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner. ~ Shane Claiborne

No text can be understood out of its entire context. The most "entire" context is Jesus. Every biblical text must be read in the living presence of Jesus. Every word of the scriptural text is a window or door leading us out of the tarpaper shacks of self into this great outdoors of God's revelation. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. ~ Robert Breault