Crank Quotes - Page 2

• 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; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Music, God

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• Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

  Gelett Burgess

  Progress, World, Sanity

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

  Benjamin Percy

  Smell, People, Pull Ups

  "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.

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• I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the one-lungers and the has-beens and the might've beens and the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at home.

  Joseph Mitchell

  New York, Home, Cities

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• There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Stupid, Men, Ideas

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• Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Children, Simple

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• Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Eugenics, May, Nonsense

  "What I Saw in America". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

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• You have to have good training partners and not people who crank on things. There's a difference between cranking on it and catching it, holding it and making the guy work out. You have to be selective with your training partners for sure.

  Jon Fitch

  Differences, People, Work Out

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• 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.

  Joseph Rago

  Body, Way, Century

  "And then there were 16". "The Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2015.

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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 a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

  Soulja Boy

  West, Firsts, Lost

  "Exclusive Interview with Soulja Boy!" by Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. November 29, 2010.

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

  E. W. Howe

  Criticism, Critics, Resemblance

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• So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics and dissenters as cranks.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Views, Needs, Littles

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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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

  Principles, Different, Saint

  John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press

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• Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory of this sort proves correct, it is a true moment for celebration.

  Alexei Panshin

  Four, Three, Celebration

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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 wears in. The handle on the pump, the crank on the churn, the dipper floating in the bucket, the latch on the screen, the door on the privy, the fender on the stove, the knees of the pants and the seat of the chair, the handle of the brush and the lid to the pot exist in time but outside taste; they wear in more than they wear out. It can't be helped. It's neither good nor bad. It's the nature of life.

  Wright Morris

  Doors, Buckets, Floating

  Wright Morris, James Alinder (1982). “Photographs & words”, Friends of Photography Bookstore

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• But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Writing, Down And, Flip

  Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.12, Bantam

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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, cranks, and charlatans.

  Michio Kaku

  Space, Community, Risk

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.23, OUP Oxford

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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 drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.

  Danny Masterson

  Keys, Cities, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 in general. It is only quite recently that Christianity reinvented itself in non-fundamentalist guise, and Islam has yet to do so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Business, Believe, Deep Understanding

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• There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Science, Errors

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

  James Dashner

  Crazy, People, Fingers

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)”, p.648, Delacorte Press

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• 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 life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.

  George Orwell

  Cutting, Years, Common Humanity

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• 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 enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Octopus, Trying, Monsters

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  House, Community, Politics

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• 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 within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Government, Curiosity, Desire

  "Mason & Dixon". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1997.

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