David Means

I'm not at all interested in simply reporting what's here right now, or cranking out an entertainment device that's going to touch the widest number of people. I'm interested in digging and excavating as deep as I can go into those small eternal moments and how they expand out, or close in, on the lives of my characters.

American Writer

Chad Harbach

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. But there's just that few days of frustration to get to that point.

Wayne Static

I don't know how these bands did it back in the '70s when they would crank out two records a year and tour at the same time, which is incredible to me. I have so much respect for all those bands working so hard like that.

American Musician

Eric Carmen

I've had a great luxury in my career in that I became a very successful songwriter, which made it unnecessary for me to have to just consistently crank out albums and run off on tour for the sake of supporting myself.

Jay Chandrasekhar

The thing about our movies is, we write thirty drafts. That's a very detailed script. Which means that if you try to crank it out week to week in television, it's impossible.

American Actor

William Dean Howells

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

American Author

Mark Twain

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Christie Brinkley

I crank up the music, and I dance around the house.

American Model

George Saunders

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

Kate Walsh

American Actress

Used in technical contexts, related to physical parts of a machine or engine.

Mechanical Term

Focuses on the circular movement part of a machine essential for power transfer.

Circular Motion

Can be used humorously or playfully to refer to someone with stubborn opinions.

Old-Fashioned Insult

Sometimes used affectionately for someone odd but endearing.

Not Always Negative

Used to describe the action of starting a machine, often with a manual crank handle.

Initiate Action

Involves physical effort; turning something with your hands.

Physical Effort

Refers to methamphetamine in informal, often illegal contexts.

Drug Slang

Commonly used to express increasing something, especially sound or energy.

Intensity Increase

Conveys enthusiasm or the need to liven up an atmosphere.

Energizing Mood

 which is that there's just not enough global demand. I mean, we can crank out these machines on assembly lines, we do know how to make things cheap, but there's just not enough people that want them." And so, let's do solar and wind and efficiency and conservation. Let's accelerate the advanced nuclear programs. I think we should triple the amount of money we're spending on it.

How fear of nuclear...

 end up advancing the cause of the negative people, the negative emotions, the cranks, the paranoids, the cynics, the nihilists. Those are the ones who get amplified by the system. And you can't pay one of these companies to make the world suddenly nice and improve democracy

How we need to remake...

 you've inherited a rare genetic mutation that cranks out amyloid beta, and this alone will tip your scale arm to the ground. But for most of us, the genes we inherit will only tip the arm a bit. For example, APOE4 is a gene variant that increases amyloid,

What You Can Do to...

 at a speaker send the text message hidden and now you've made your swanky little Wi-Fi speaker move out the speaker the mp3 player put instead a servo and send an email to your thermostat telling it to crank up the heat and when you get home your

The Internet as a...

 We transfer energy into the clock when we turn the crank to raise the heavy metal cylinders inside the clock. When we do this, we are doing positive work, adding energy to the clock, and that energy is stored as gravitational potential energy.

How does work...work? -...

 is that the world just isn't built for us. There's so many ways that we can get overwhelmed. For example, the thing that makes me overwhelmed all the time is loud noises, which means I never crank up my music really loud

What it's really like to...

 crank up and start plucking these boys get pretty hot in email examining the nest wouldn't have damaged the eggs in any way the female will return as soon as we're gone to continue to protect her

Saltwater Crocodile...

 as a whistle-blower, except that like almost all whistle-blowers, he wasn't a crank at all, he was passionately devoted to the organization and the higher purposes that that organization served.

Dare to disagree PIPE...

 to tell you that they love you. The other main characteristic is motivation. The motor in the brain begins to crank, and you want this person. And last but not least, it is an obsession.

Why we love, why we...

 do apologize about any technical issues then if you maybe saw the roof or the sky whose crank is busy putting on the infrared light as it is getting to that

Crank