Top 100 Crane Quotes
#1. I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.
David James Elliott
#2. The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.
John Green
#3. The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Chanakya
#4. Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.
Chanakya
#5. Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
Herman Melville
#6. The top seed this weekend is Richard Krajicek,12 a 6'5" Dutchman who wears a tiny white billed hat in the sun and rushes the net like it owes him money and in general plays like a rabid crane.
David Foster Wallace
#7. There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."
Dave Barry
#9. Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.'
John Fusco
#10. Connected to the Crane's Nest than she. Still, it sort of sucked to have what was a pretty epic kiss interrupted by ghostly possession. Ghosts were so damn rude.
Anonymous
#11. Connor Crane was currently the secret crush of half the female HHH population. And a couple of the males, too.
Gemma Halliday
#12. We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.
Harold Bloom
#13. It is Hillary's [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael Bloomberg, attorney and labor mediator Theodore Kheel, and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, crane to see her.
Gail Sheehy
#14. Amina would not know herself until years later, when she understood what it was to long for someone, to ache for their smell and taste on you, to imagine the weight of their hips pinning yours so precisely that you crane up to meet your own invisible desire
Mira Jacob
#15. I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish.
I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.
Maggie Stiefvater
#16. I don't study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I'm not watching film - I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don't say, 'Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,' because it's got to be my eye.
James Cromwell
#17. Make no excuses for the devils that will not excuse you of their burdens, Miss Crane. - Darien Nicodemeus; Chapter Sixteen - The Giant's Return
S.C. Parris
#18. Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please.
Anthony Perkin's Norman Bates
Talking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane.
Alfred Hitchcock
#19. When I got the camera on the shoulder, they give me a nickname. They call me 'the tripod' because I'm kind of short and kind of strong. So if I take the camera and I lock myself, you think that you're on a crane.
Luc Besson
#20. Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.
Diablo Cody
#21. Heroic," Crane told Baines contemptuously. "Old women, idiot children, bound men, you'll take on all comers. There's a three-legged stray dog hangs around the lanes here. Perhaps someday you could work up to kicking that.
K.J. Charles
#22. When HSBC took the painting out of their building, they had to block the road and use a crane to bring the painting out from the window. They spent about 20,000 dollars just to get the painting out of the building! They said not to bring it back, and told Sotheby's to sell it immediately!
Liu Dan
#23. Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other."
Lark: "I didn't say they liked it.
- Daja and Lark referring to Rosethorn and Crane's cooperation on finding the cures for new diseases
Tamora Pierce
#24. While he is universally remembered as Colonel Hogan, Bob Crane must be credited for paving the way for radio personalities and disc jockeys for generations to come.
Carol M. Ford
#25. I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.
Dario Argento
#26. I like to make you know your master," Crane said. "It's only fair. The rest of the time you've got me so thoroughly enslaved, I might as well be wearing a collar with your name on it.
K.J. Charles
#27. The levee had always been my beach, the world beyond it, my ocean. That's as close as it got here, anyway. No waves, no dolphins, no white sand, no sea gulls. If you were lucky enough, though, every once in a while you did get to see a crane, or a beaver.
Laura Miller
#28. The rat scuttles, the big cat creeps, the monkey dashes,
The bat glides, the white crane soars, the lizard darts,
And the owl hoots
In the middle of the night.
Sandy Fussell
#29. Bob Crane's advancement to KNX is the stuff of legend.
Carol M. Ford
#30. I would be lucky to be remembered as Harry Crane. That being said, I think it's a goal for most actors to have the opportunity to play a variety of characters, so I hope any non-'Mad Men' role feels as separate as possible from Harry.
Rich Sommer
#31. Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.
Rose George
#32. There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot. Or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something.
Roger Deakins
#33. Writing a biography is a delicate - not a reckless - process, where the end result, if done properly, is simply the truth revealed. This delicate and intricate research process has never before been done for Bob Crane, a man with a story worth telling.
Carol M. Ford
#34. A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
A. J. Bowen
#35. Bob [Crane] was driven to success, and he sought perfection in his work, right from the start.
Carol M. Ford
#36. My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe.
Chuck Palahniuk
#37. Tragically, it was Vince Masuoka who finally answered that lame question. "Grasshopper," he said, shaking his head wisely, on the morning when he overheard me turning down Miami Hoy for the third time. "When temple bell rings, crane must fly.
Jeff Lindsay
#38. The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.
Dennis Washington
#39. On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.
Aldo Leopold
#40. Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?
Rachel Caine
#41. I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it ...
Suzanne Collins
#42. Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had never seen war but had only read the battles and chronicles and seen the Brady
Ernest Hemingway,
#43. To what shall
I liken the world?
Moonlight, reflected
In dewdrops,
Shaken from a crane's bill.
Dogen
#44. I looked up, but had to crane my head back, leaving the features above me wrong-side up. The clear green eyes were the same, and, unfortunately, so was the spiky blond hair. It didn't look any better from this angle, I decided.
Karen Chance
#45. Washington Bridge. The components were then lowered into the Thirtieth Street hole by a special crane that could withstand
David Grann
#46. The workings of the male mind are twisted indeed. Winnifred Crane
Kate Noble
#47. I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
Adam Savage
#49. Elijah didn't know how to say no to the man. Wait. He knew how to say no, but Crane didn't know how to listen.
Lisa Henry
#50. Pine trees rise through cloud
soar up into the blue skies,
bush clover spangled with dewdrops
sways in the autumn breeze;
As I dip cold, pure water
at the edge of the stream,
a solitary white crane
comes lolloping my way.
Baisao
#51. There are lots of animals in the house.
There's an elephant in the hall,
a seal in the bathtub,
a crane in the laundry,
a tiger on the stairs,
and a polar bear by the fridge.
Does this have anything to do with you?
John Burningham
#52. Continental three-dollar bill, designed by Benjamin Franklin. An eagle fights a crane, with the motto "Exitus in dubio est," "The outcome is in doubt.
Kathleen DuVal
#53. Water inflated the belly
Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley.
Coleridge was a dope.
Southwell died on a rope.
Roy Fuller
#54. I'm a very busy man" Crane said. "But I suppose I could force myself back here, lick you all over till you're begging for my cock, and then fuck you so hard they'll hear you screaming in the street. If you insist
K.J. Charles
#55. Eva was assigned to learn her duties from Rita Crane, an older woman of indeterminate age and one of the world's most unsuccessful secret drinkers.
Kathleen Tessaro
#56. A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane
Saadi
#57. That Bob Crane is not here to tell his own life story is our ultimate loss.
Carol M. Ford
#58. Thus is the blessing of Chi-Ji," the crane said. "No more shall die this day. Take this second chance, and use it wisely.
Christie Golden
#59. Quickly ducking, I fall to the ground while taking grip on the table. Hearing the axe get stuck into the wall on the other side, I slyly crane my neck to see what he was going to do next.
Ashley Ehlers
#60. Shokaku is a crane of some kind.'
'For lifting things?' Will asked.
'For flying. A crane is a large bird,' she corrected him ...
'Seems like a logical thing for a crane to do,' Halt mused. 'I suppose you wouldn't expect it to mean 'a hiking crane' or 'a waddling crane.
John Flanagan
#61. I loosen my grip and take a tasteless bite. I don't like bananas much - they're so mealy - but they're a safe fruit to eat, always cleanly wrapped in their own packages. As I chew, I crane my neck to check out the people around us.
Corinne Duyvis
#63. One word continues to be used when people talk about Bob Crane's radio work: genius.
Carol M. Ford
#64. Pea Eye loped up and unfolded himself in the direction of the ground. "Your getting off a horse reminds me of an old crane landing in a mud puddle," Augustus said.
Larry McMurtry
#65. When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.
Roger Deakins
#66. My interpreter Sayuri is folding a piece of notebook paper. She is at step 21, where the crane's body is inflated. The directions show a tiny puff besides an arrow pointing at the bird. It makes sense if you already know what to do. Otherwise, it's wonderfully surreal: Put a cloud inside a bird.
Mary Roach
#67. If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
Lars Von Trier
#68. He's the meat in the meat locker. The wrecking ball at the end of a crane's chain. The seawall that stands between the ocean and the shore. Big. Bald. Beaten down.
Chuck Wendig
#69. I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy enough, I also wrestled a greased pig in a mud pit.
Shandi Finnessey
#70. When I have you, sweet boy, it will be because you want me to. Not against your better judgment, not in spite of my surname, and definitely not to annoy your aunt."
Stephen went red, but his voice was defiant. "Well, what was that, then?"
Crane shrugged. "You seemed tense.
K.J. Charles
#71. The Stark River flowed around the oxbow at Murrayville the way blood flowed through Margo Crane's heart.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#72. But what would they have said to their Liaison? It's like this, Meg. We didn't like that Asia Crane, so we ate her.
When dealing with humans, honesty isn't always the best policy, Vlad thought
Anne Bishop
#74. Of course, I feared that the joy I felt, like certain trees, had taken root at the edge of a craggy cliff. They may crane their necks and turn their leaves all they want toward the sun, but gravity has the last word.
Andre Aciman
#75. Men were better, or more timid. Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.
Stephen Crane
#76. Nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.
Stephen Crane
#77. Was he laughing at me? Was I so pathetic that the thought that not only getting caught, but being humiliated with laughter was appropriate punishment for my lameness?
Shelly Crane
#78. Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.
David Crane
#79. I am but a small shard in a grand mosaic.
Fred Crane
#80. When I got bored, I conjugated verbs. Kissing and conjugating go well together. They're both French. No.
Rebekah Crane
#81. Glanced back behind me but heard nothing save for a grunt that was repeated from several different sources at once.
Robert J. Crane
#82. You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming.
Stephen Crane
#83. Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.
Carolyn Crane
#85. I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole from
you. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make you
forget.
Shelly Crane
#86. We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.
Shelly Crane
#87. You can't hang on to the past and you certainly can't throw a wobbly every time something happens that you don't like.
Shelly Crane
#88. Your heart beat is my favorite thing to listen to. When you look at me and your heart rate jumps.
Shelly Crane
#89. I'll always come for you. I'll always find you.
Shelly Crane
#91. The world isn't always easy, but it's those times when we're tested that we're forged in fire.
Shelly Crane
#92. Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.
Stephen Crane
#93. You look like the cat that swallowed the cream," Stephen said softly.
"That comes later.
K.J. Charles
#94. I felt like a glutton for pain, like I wanted to clutch the misery close to my heart and let it sit there.
Robert J. Crane
#95. Sometimes silence is needed the most when life is so full of noise.
Rebekah Crane
#96. And it's not fair. But all's fair in love and war, right?
Shelly Crane
#98. I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.
Tim Crane
#99. Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!
George W. Crane
#100. You almost got hit by a truck because you were checking me out?" I joked and he laughed loudly.
"Yeah. Good thing you saved me. It would have been your fault if I didn't make it," he said through a grin.
Shelly Crane
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