Wangle Quotes & Sayings

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us
not to mention our crockery and our woolens! — Aristophanes

I could be a dray man delivering the beer, maybe. If they could wangle some cockney in, that would be great. — Pauline Quirke

If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand. — Jim Ratcliffe

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college. — Francis Ford Coppola

It's in the tilting and thrashing that we wangle our luck. — Chang-rae Lee

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. — Robert Breault

What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal child, if he has confidence in mother and father, pulls out all the stops. In the course of time, he tries out his power to disrupt, to destroy, to frighten, to wear down, to waste, to wangle, and to appropriate ... At the start he absolutely needs to live in a circle of love and strength (with consequent tolerance) if he is not to be too fearful of his own thoughts and of his imaginings to make progress in his emotional development. — D.W. Winnicott

If I don't bury myself inside of you within the next five minutes, you aren't going to be able to walk tomorrow. — Vi Keeland

I thought that's what happened to women: You live alone when you're old. — Jen Kirkman

Benzedrine,' he said. 'I rang up my secretary before dinner and asked her to wangle some out of the surgery at Headquarters. — Ian Fleming

I knew he wouldn't die, because his life was like the roots of a tree that went miles into the soil and miles around its trunk and came up in my cousins, in their faces and their voices and their character. I didn't think you could kill a tree that big. Not even God could kill a tree that big. — Donald Miller

If you do not learn to think today, tomorrow someone else will do and will wangle you.
THE WOMAN THAT USED TO PLAY HIDE AND SEEK, a story by David Cotos. — David Cotos

A couple of days after the letter arrived, I was discharged from the hospital, in the custody, so to speak, of about three yards of adhesive tape around my ribs. Then began a very strenuous week's campaign to get permission to attend the wedding. I was finally able to do it by laboriously ingratiating myself with my company commander, a bookish man by his own confession, whose favorite author, as luck had it, happened to be my favorite author-L. Manning Vines. Or Hinds. Despite this spiritual bond between us, the most I could wangle out of him was a three-day pass, which would, at best, give me just enough time to travel by train to New York, see the wedding, bolt a dinner somewhere, and then return damply to Georgia. — J.D. Salinger

Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway. — Yanis Varoufakis

A third of our food comes from pollinating plants. — Louie Schwartzberg

I think friendships are the result of certain needs that can be completely hidden from both people, sometimes hidden forever. — Patricia Highsmith