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  • Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while

    Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Crank”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Car   House   Crank  
  • Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary effect on my mind. If every year of my life, every month of the year, I had lived with reformers and crusaders I should be, by this time, a fanatic. As it is I have had such varied things to do, I have had so many different contacts that I am not even very much of a crank.

    Years   Class   Knowing  
  • Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

    Crazy   Mad   Hints  
    Said after studying the Ptolemaic system (attributed)
  • 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.

  • A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.

    Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.10, Academic Press
  • There is a strange idea aboard, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash value than the loan for which he is asking. Or he has it because his character and past record have earned it. He brings it into the bank with him. That is why the banker makes him the loan.

    Character   Men   Past  
  • There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or out, something new wears in. The handle on the pump, the crank on the churn, the dipper floating in the bucket, the latch on the screen, the door on the privy, the fender on the stove, the knees of the pants and the seat of the chair, the handle of the brush and the lid to the pot exist in time but outside taste; they wear in more than they wear out. It can't be helped. It's neither good nor bad. It's the nature of life.

    Wright Morris, James Alinder (1982). “Photographs & words”, Friends of Photography Bookstore
  • There have always been hucksters, cranks and populists who see a brief rise in American politics, going back to William Jennings Bryan at the turn of the century. The body politic has a way of expelling these invaders.

    Body   Way   Crank  
    "And then there were 16". "The Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2015.
  • The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

    Praise   Crank   Made  
  • 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.

    Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.163, A&C Black
  • To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.

    Writing   Mean   Men  
    Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.39, Melville House
  • 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.

    Book   Space   Gears  
    Source: www.gq.com
  • You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.

    Race   Escaping   Years  
    Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.225, Random House
  • The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.

    Blow   Men   Fabric  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.
  • 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.

    Song   Long   Fans  
  • 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.

    Keys   Cities   Car  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him. Footnote: Carlyle says, in his History of Frederick the Great, book ii. chap. vii. that this saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, 'that it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice,' is still remembered by mankind, - this and no other of his many sayings.

    Book   Taken   Science  
    Said after studying the Ptolemaic system (attributed)
  • 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.

    Travel   Struggle   Home  
  • You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?

    Phones   Cnn   Puppets  
    "Jon Stewart's America". "Crossfire" with Paul Begala, Tucker Carlson, transcripts.cnn.com. October 15, 2004.
  • 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.

    Dream   Book   Writing  
  • Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

    Zimbabwe   World   Crank  
  • Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration of the Sphinx; and the devotee of nuts by pointing out that hazelnuts and walnuts are as deleterious as other foods and only Brazil nuts should be tolerated. But when I was younger I had not yet acquired this technique, with the result that my contacts with cranks were sometimes alarming.

    Nuts   Pyramids   People  
  • To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours.

    Twitter post from Sep 17, 2012
  • Did you get the new iPhone yet? The iPhone that I have is outdated. It has two pieces and a hand crank.

    Iphone   Hands   Two  
  • Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

    "Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns -- Again", www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2010.
  • The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands.The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind-creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.These people-artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers-will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.

    Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.14, Penguin
  • More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

    Errors   Crank  
    Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.93, Routledge
  • Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

    John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press
  • I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the one-lungers and the has-beens and the might've beens and the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home.

    New York   Home   Cities  
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