Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough. — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There is a strange idea aboard, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
(UGO, about Crank) I see the addiction to video games because you want to win them and it's just hard enough so… — Amy Smart Copy Share Image
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I am discounting the reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos? — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth.… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different.… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a lot of experience I have from doing TV animation that would be especially useful doing an animated… — David X. Cohen Copy Share Image
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable. — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
