Quotes with crank

  • Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

Quotes 1 till 5 of 5.

  • Mark Twain A crank is someone with a new idea - until it catches on.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Rose Macaulay Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
    - +
     0
  • Heywood Broun Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
    - +
     0
  • Mark Twain The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Saunders 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
    British explorer
    - +
     0
All crank famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com