Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles. — John Milton Copy Share Image
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Before you think I'm a complete pig.. never mind. I am." - Crank” — Charles Sheehan-Miles Copy Share Image
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible — C. S. Lewis 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
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
“My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.” — Ruta Sepetys 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
You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you? — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life… — John Powell 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
I have people who look after me and help me when I'm out of town. But when I'm at home in LA… — Carmen Electra Copy Share Image
We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
There have always been hucksters, cranks and populists who see a brief rise in American politics, going back to William Jennings Bryan… — Joseph Rago Copy Share Image
I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in… — Leslie Mann 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
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
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
Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration… — Bertrand Russell 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
Yoshihiro Togashi here. I'm back doing a weekly serial, and here I am publishing my first volume already. Thanks to all my… — Yoshihiro Togashi 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
On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank… — Louis Kronenberger 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
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… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“The things you rebel against are the things that define you. (Crank)” — Charles Sheehan-Miles 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
(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable. — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
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