Finagler Quotes & Sayings

I am like a burglar that can't get away, but must go on miserably burgling the same house day after day.
- Bilbo Baggins — J.R.R. Tolkien

I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me. — Marilyn Monroe

Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences - good or bad. — Ezra Taft Benson

I use logic all the time in mathematics, and it seems to yield "correct" results, but in mathematics "correct" by and large means "logical", so I'm back where I started. I can't defend logic because I can't remove my glasses. — Richard J. Trudeau

I have worked hard in my career, but I have been lucky as well. — Jennifer Damiano

Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise. — James Surowiecki

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that. — Jeffrey R. Immelt

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler. — William Greider

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest. — Mahatma Gandhi

There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she would be able to play it through, do the right thing, whatever that meant. — Joan Didion