Crank Quotes
89 quotes by 81 authors
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There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
— Bertrand Russell
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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…
— Daniel H. Pink
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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…
— Cyril Connolly
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I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion…
— Richard Dawkins
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Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
— C.S. Lewis
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We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin,…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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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…
— Danny Masterson
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And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics,…
— Michio Kaku
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I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?
— Stephen Hawking
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What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who…
— Michael Buerk
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Yoshihiro Togashi here. I'm back doing a weekly serial, and here I am publishing my first volume already. Thanks to all my readers for their…
— Yoshihiro Togashi
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To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp…
— Annie Dillard
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I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag…
— Saul Bellow
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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,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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…
— Ernest Hemingway
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As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue.…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make…
— Sue Grafton
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Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.
— Helen Clark
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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…
— Wright Morris
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