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Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him. -- J. I. Packer
Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing. -- Cynthia Breazeal
Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful. -- Gary Ross
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. -- Edgar Allan Poe
For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity. -- Orhan Pamuk
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife. -- Patti Smith
According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades. -- Brendan I. Koerner
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight. -- Karen Abbott
But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. -- Henry Morton Stanley
We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator. -- Ellen G. White
Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-vine Zinfandel, which he blends with Syrah and Mourvedre and labels with fanciful names such as Problem Child, the Outsider and Cherry Red. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful. -- Joseph Bruchac
When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams. -- Tim Walker
As a kid, you just like anything fanciful that you're into, but as an adult, I really love that kind of place where the super hero mythos meets life, where it has that human story; that's what I think I was really drawn to when I started getting into the X-Men. -- Cress Williams
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight. -- Martin Filler
With comics, you don't have to worry so much about budgetary constraints. In film and television, however fanciful you want to be, someone can come up to you and go, 'Okay, this is going to cost X amount of dollars, and we only have so many days to film this.' With graphic novels, you can have that alien invasion you've always wanted to see. -- John Ridley
Decapitation is a fanciful strategy. -- John Mearsheimer
Night will always remain a cat's magical, fanciful time. -- Jerry Climer
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven. -- Ernest Holmes
The fanciful is as much a part of our reality as the factual. -- Marty Rubin
Unfortunately, proof of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison was as fanciful as Professor Ellis' war service. -- Ann Coulter
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. -- Plato
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. -- Sophocles
I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales." -- Arthur Kornberg
To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
I guess I'm a bit of a projector - my emotions tend to get translated into different, fanciful situations. -- Matthea Harvey
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity -- Forest Ray Moulton
People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact. -- Deepak Chopra
Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Freud 's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. (Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar? -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in? -- David Alan Harvey
I do less-fanciful reality. I celebrate the fat, the ugly, the women who can't get guys. I'm not trying to entertain you; I'm trying to make you passionate. -- Sheila Nevins
Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference. -- Wilhelm Wundt
Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad. -- Shirley Jackson
But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer. -- Galileo Galilei
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations. -- Stan Lee
Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings. -- Shigeru Ban
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married. -- Susanna Clarke

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