Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.
It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.
Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words "one size fits all," and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea's Retreat, not Victoria's Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U. S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren't fussy.
If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater.
On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.
Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.
Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.
I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and, not least, his ridiculous accent that grew thicker or thinner depending on who he was talking to, did not look like a threat. He looked funny, a joke, a music-hall vampire. It had never previously occurred to Vimes that, just possibly, the joke was on other people.
Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential. . . In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.
I've actually always been fussy about the work I do.
Being a singer now I have to get all fussy. . . I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.
I've never been a girly-girl, never drawn to things that are fussy.
I am quite fussy about clothes.
I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.
A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started getting fussy about every syllable. I wouldn't allow the work to be seen unless it felt perfect. Not clunky at all, no clunky syllables. So, really, for the printed page, it had to have a feeling of rhythmic and syntactic verisimilitude or something.
Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isnt about being fussy; its about taking care of myself.
"Fussy eater" is a euphemism for "big pain in the ass. "
Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.
