Finagle Quotes & Sayings

When it comes to picking parts, I do make an effort to choose parts that I want to do, and not necessarily parts someone else wants me to do, or parts that someone else is going to respond to. — Mila Kunis

I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow. — Ethel Waters

In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels. — Kate Millett

Some live in a state of passionate indecision. — Mason Cooley

Remember the Finagle Laws. The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. The universe is hostile." "But — Larry Niven

My knowledge of Vancouver and Canada was limited to what I knew about Bob and Doug McKenzie. I thought they were funny, talking out of the sides of their mouths and saying 'eh' and wearing toques. — Peter DeLuise

We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay. — Jackie Speier

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice. — Lauryn Hill

I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it. — Robert Barry

I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish.
I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace. — Maggie Stiefvater

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is. — James Agee

I saw you first, but you never saw me.Never have.Not even now — Lindy Zart

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author. — John Hodgman

I'll order anything that has the word 'fig' or 'crusted' in the menu description. — Michael Carbonaro

You don't get a chance to adjust and finagle, and decide that you really didn't intend to do that anyway, and readjust your objectives to make yourself look better. You never just focus on what you've accomplished for the year; you focus on what you've accomplished relative to exactly what you said you were going to accomplish - no matter how tough the measure. That was a discipline learned at Abbott, and that we carried into Amgen.3 — James C. Collins

Yeah whatever," Andrew said impatiently. "He came back to the room that night and kept talking about this girl he'd seen at the stargazing. He was shy, and so I told him if he pointed you out, I'd try to finagle a meeting." I swear, Andrew's the only person in the world who could use a word like finagle with a straight face. "But he was talking about me," I said. Andrew shrugged. "When we figured it out, we had a good laugh about it," he said defensively. "But of course you were my girlfriend. So that was that. — Alicia Thompson

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum — Larry Niven

On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones. — Gareth Gates

That'll take some finagling,' she told Mulder.
'I'll keep watch, then,' he said. 'You go downtown and see what you can finagle. — Ellen Steiber

Like the dandelion clocks, all blown and dispersed on the wind, my life has evaporated into the emptiness of a dream; for which I blame my betrayer, that dubious stranger wearing the mask of a once-loved face. — Anna Kavan

I have met people who insist that humans taste like veal. And one woman from Canada who will swear up and down that people, like most other things, taste a bit like chicken. But she was crazy. And also Canadian. — Warren Ellis