#crank

In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket. ↗

— James Wolcott

#barack #barack obama #bob #buffet #cranky

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#books #crank #different #every #formula

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 to the compression space and cylinder. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#charge #compression #crank #external #flows

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

#crank #dream #him #his #like

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what? ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#best #cranking #go #got #i

I'm cranky. ↗

— Larry David

#i

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

#car #city #crank #day #drove

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#enough #i #me #now #old

I still like to make crank calls. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#crank #i #like #make #still

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#books #cranky #get #hard #i