Quotes About Fixers

My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field.

Dus mijn zus is een professionele probleemoplosser?' vroeg ik afgemeten. 'Zij lost de problemen van andere mensen op? Dat is toch geen baan?' 'Vraag en aanbod, Tess,' zei Vivvie. 'In Washington noemen we dit soort mensen fixers.

Willa was confounded. Millennials she thought she knew: the overmothered cyborgs helplessly sunk in their virtual worlds. From what planet came this new, slightly feral tribe of fixers, makers, and barterers, she had no idea.

Most people somehow look at people in the crisis industry as fixers, but some things can't be fixed by an outside person.

It's what I lost. I could see him turning the sentence around in his head. Examining it as he would a wound or an illness. And I saw in his eyes the moment he realized that fixers like him and me can easily mend broken things. But we can't easily find lost things. Finding something you lost takes a different kind of skill.

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

Fixers don't get their hands dirty.

We are a nation not only of dreamers, but also of fixers. We have looked at our land and people, and said, time and time again, "This is not good enough; we can be better.

Americans are not comfortable with tragedy. Because of its insolubility. Tragedy is not amenable to reason and we are fixers, aren't we? We can fix everything.