Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
People like 'Crank,' some people like 'Redemption.' I'm just happy to do things that satiate a different part of me, that test… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits… — Joseph Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people. — James Dashner Copy Share Image
I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.' — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them.… — Danny Masterson Copy Share Image
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank… — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
