Crankum Quotes & Sayings

One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on. — Phyllis A. Balch

Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat. — Dave Pelzer

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong. — Elvis Costello

[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on. — William C. Bryant

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. — Wole Soyinka

Of course, if you've made up your mind about it, you'll find an answer to everything. — Agatha Christie

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write. — Gary Panter

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear. — Mary C. Jones

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn't work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they're done they're done. — Kurt Vonnegut

Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn't accept money from strangers. — Alan Abel

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde. — Marilyn Monroe

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent. — Anne Bradstreet

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life. — Mark Haddon