Crank Quotes

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There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths. — Bertrand Russell
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
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
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
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. — C.S. Lewis
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
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
And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable — Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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
I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos? — Stephen Hawking
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. — Helen Clark
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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