Crank Quotes
89 Crank quotes by 79 unique authors
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There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FØRTRAN. They write more code in less time than…
— Bill Joy
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The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
— C.S. Lewis
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Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is…
— C.S. Lewis
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I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll even crank 'Pretty…
— Norman Reedus
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I still like to make crank calls.
— Kate Walsh
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You might argue that I make the rounds no matter what year it is, but sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a…
— Markus Zusak
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Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
— Larry Wall
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Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child…
— Rose Macaulay
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I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful;…
— Martin Luther
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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
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Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
— Gelett Burgess
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Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and…
— Nicholas Stern
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I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when…
— Leslie Mann
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Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the…
— Richard K. Morgan
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Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.
— John Powell
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More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.
— Bertrand Russell
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My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such…
— Soulja Boy
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When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald,…
— Linwood Barclay
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In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You…
— Paul Allen
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Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.
— Randy Newman
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Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity…
— Alfonso X of Castile
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I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few…
— Fran Kranz
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There is a strange idea aboard, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary,…
— Henry Hazlitt
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We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law…
— Louis Kronenberger
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By now, a million pedal strokes have etched the muscles in my legs with a single purpose: to power the crank and move the bicycle…
— Frosty Wooldridge
Who Wrote These Crank Quotes
79 authors contributed a total of 89 Crank Quotes, led by these top contributors: