Best Crank Sayings

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The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. .… — David Lloyd George
Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank. — E. W. Howe
I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough. — Amy Lee
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. — Mark Twain
It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances… — Evgeny Morozov
Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate… — Garrison Keillor
Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people… — Charles Bukowski
Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left… — Thomas Pynchon
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks… — Matthew Scully
Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard… — Ellen Hopkins
The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the… — George Orwell
I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people. — James Dashner
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now… — Mark Twain
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. — Henri Bergson
In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank,… — P.J. O'Rourke
Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop… — Joe McNally
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to… — Cynthia Ozick
I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying… — Wilbur Wright
The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve… — Lawrence Hargrave
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
Those days where you crank the music and jump around your room like an idiot trying to dance with your 19 year old brother :D… — Lily
Beethoven....composing.....Full Blast.... Shakespeare.....scribbling frantically....No limits.... Michelangelo....the Art....the Dance....Screaming, without a sound.... My Muse.... My very Soul.... Watches me, Giggling, Smiling, Knowing, Hearing, The Song, The… — Eric Nickel
I drive your truck I roll every window down and I burn up every back road in this town I find a field tear it… — Lee Brice
Goanna drive like hell through your neighborhood park this silverado right on your front lawn. crank a little high sit on the hood and drink… — Tyler Farr

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