Finagled Quotes & Sayings

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us. — Robert A. Burton

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

It was not out of love that I wanted to meet my father, but out of the darkest curiosity - to be able to recognize, in myself, what evil I might be capable of. — John Irving

When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in that ludicrous "hockey stick" graph, pretending to prove that the world had suddenly become much hotter than at any time in 1,000 years. Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence, I concluded, must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology. — Christopher Booker

What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true. — Charlotte Le Bon

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. — Anais Nin

Some people can handle alcohol. You know who you are. Some people can't handle alcohol. The police know who you are. — Gabriel Iglesias

In recent years, using tissue samples from themselves, their families, and their patients, scientists had grown cells of all kinds - prostate cancer, appendix, foreskin, even bits of human cornea - often with surprising ease. Researchers were using that growing library of cells to make historic discoveries: that cigarettes caused lung cancer; how X-rays and certain chemicals — Rebecca Skloot

Barbara had really missed her calling. She should have been a gynecologist. Nothing pleased her more than having her face between another woman's legs. — Elysia N. Fields

They worried to an excessive degree about getting gender correct, as if elves gave a shit. Humans could keep their concerns about everyone's genitalia to themselves. — Sabrina Zbasnik