#crank

I want you to love me." "I don't even know you." "Then I'll settle for a date. Bowling? ↗

— Charles Sheehan-Miles

#dating

Some people may GET what they want, but may not WANT what they get! ↗

— David Crank

#faith-church-st-louis #faith

And you won't write any more stupid songs about me?" "Can't promise that. In fact, that may be all I do for the rest of my life. ↗

— Charles Sheehan-Miles

#life

That's why you love me." "I do not love you. I don't even like you." "You will," he said, his voice low and luscious. ↗

— Charles Sheehan-Miles

#love

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#comic #comic strip #cranking #i #keep

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#belt #cranking #desk #engine #gears

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#hours #out #quick #reasonable #seinfeld

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

— Mark Twain

#crank #idea #new #new idea #person

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