Crank Quotes

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, and madmen.

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

I am discounting the reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

I still like to make crank calls.

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable

Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

Was the fun in the fall?

I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing 'Crank,' and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done.

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

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 a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

Up at the crank of dawn.

I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else.

Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

There have always been hucksters, cranks and populists who see a brief rise in American politics, going back to William Jennings Bryan at the turn of the century. The body politic has a way of expelling these invaders.