Quotes of: Cranking Keyword

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 that you will be seen as a crank.

Evgeny Morozov

Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling. Sometimes she thought that she might have cranked it all the way up and broken the dial before the music had even started.

Her Father's Daughter

I still like to make crank calls.

Kate Walsh

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

Amy Lee

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

George Saunders

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

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

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Players who aren't self-starters shouldn't blame the coach for being the crank.

Life

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

Helen Clark

How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

Nick Nolte

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

Stephen Hawking

My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.

Grimes

When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a groove and crank out the miles.

Ben Saunders

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Amanda Palmer

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Annie Dillard

I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

Mayer Hawthorne

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

Alison Bechdel

I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself.

Ellen Hopkins

. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.

Reflections on the Psalms

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 everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.

Leslie Mann