Funny Crank Yankers Quotes & Sayings

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant. — Ralph Vaughan Williams

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street. — David Hare

The heroes who emerged first from the rubble of the September 11 attacks were not politicians or generals and they didnt become household names in the months that followed. They were, instead, public servants who continued to work day in and day out to protect our communities and ensure hometown security. — Ben Nelson

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. — Francis Jeffrey

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that. — Dani Shapiro

Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to. — Matthew Fox

Say what you want about aging,
it's still the only way to have old friends. — Robert Breault

Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument. — Thomas Overbury

I nodded. It was his checklist. Every time we were together we went through this. He ran down his list of people, events, even actual objects that were in my life. — A.M. Homes

I put on some smooth jazz and change into a smooth silk lungi. — Sidin Vadukut

Unlike in the 1980s and 1990s, this time the Japanese are going to be more circumspect and invest in their end markets, which would include Europe and the United States. — Arjuna Mahendran

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it. — Arthur Balfour

The Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Leroy helped me process the reality that when we engage in the messiness and tension of a suffering community, we experience the positive and negative ways that people respond to that suffering. As a result, we live in the tension between desperation and excess; while we live in the black, others fight for survival in the red. This becomes a real aspect of community: struggling through loving our neighbors when our neighbors do not enjoy the same blessings we do. — Jeff Shinabarger