Quotes about Crank

I still like to make crank calls. Votes: 5

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. Votes: 5

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable. Votes: 5

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank. Votes: 5

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then. Votes: 5

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling. Votes: 5

People like 'Crank,' some people like 'Redemption.' I'm just happy to do things that satiate a different part of me, that test me a little bit. Votes: 4

My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway. Votes: 4

Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby. Votes: 3

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths. Votes: 3

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. Votes: 3

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. Votes: 3

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable Votes: 3

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible Votes: 3

I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people. Votes: 3

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. Votes: 3

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out. Votes: 3

A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank. Votes: 3

You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing 'Crank,' and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done. Votes: 3

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then. Votes: 3

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen. Votes: 3

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him. Votes: 3

I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself. Votes: 3

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is. Votes: 3

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong. Votes: 3

Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank. Votes: 3

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Votes: 3

Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool. Votes: 3

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up. Votes: 3

Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They all write letters. It's their safe outlet, you see. They can be as interfering, as long-winded, as obscene, as pompous, as one-idea'd, as they like on paper, and no one can kick them for it. So they write. My God, how they write! Votes: 3

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough. Votes: 2

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable. Votes: 2

When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a groove and crank out the miles. Votes: 2

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.' Votes: 2

Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself! Votes: 2

I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll even crank 'Pretty in Pink,' I don't care. Votes: 2

The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder. Votes: 2

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part. Votes: 2

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank. Votes: 2

I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It's kind of my stress reliever. Votes: 2

In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point. Votes: 2

I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something. Votes: 2

Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit after hit on demand and on a very tight calendar. I've come back, I've lost it, I've come back again. It's really as good as your last collection. Votes: 2

When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank. Votes: 2

In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me. Votes: 2

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis. Votes: 2

I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.' Votes: 2

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success. Votes: 2

I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go. But there's just that few days of frustration to get to that point. Votes: 2

I run everywhere I go. You wake up, and you do it, and you make the time. I bring my son, Duke, with me on a lot of the runs. I have this great jogging stroller, and he loves it. It's a great time for the two of us. We'll crank out a run, and he has the time of his life. Votes: 2

Up at the crank of dawn. Votes: 0

Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank. Votes: 0

To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours. Votes: 0

You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you? Votes: 0

Did you get the new iPhone yet? The iPhone that I have is outdated. It has two pieces and a hand crank. Votes: 0

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon. Votes: 0

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank. Votes: 0

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed. Votes: 0

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom. Votes: 0

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple. Votes: 0

Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery. Votes: 0

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. Votes: 0

Librarians...possess a vast stone of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth-breather there is. Votes: 0