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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Reputation
  • Madman
  • Faddist

• All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Ends
  • Kissing
  • Misfits

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

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Health
  • Made
  • Praise

• 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
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Crank

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

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Enough
  • Writer
  • Crank

• There was a stage inside it and a crank on the outside that would rotate something, like a tiny tree carved of cork, onto the stage, and then the thousands of little mirrors would multiply that one tree so that the viewer would see an infinite forest instead.

  

  Danielle Dutton
  • Tree
  • Infinite
  • Forests

• I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • World
  • Book
  • Space

• I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Strong
  • Sleep
  • Hours