Ellen Hopkins Crank Quotes

#1. As Mark Twain cuttingly remarked, if you removed all occurrences of the phrase 'And it came to pass', the Book of Mormon would be reduced to a pamphlet.

Richard Dawkins

#2. I do shamefully little for charity, and I always talk about it when I do.

John Niven

#3. Life was radical right after I met the monster.
Later, life became harder, complicated.
Ultimately, a living hell, like swimming against a riptide,
Walking the wrong direction in the fast lane of the freeway,
Waking from sweetest dreams to find yourself in the middle of a nightmare.

Ellen Hopkins

#4. What you don't know won't hurt you.

Margaret Atwood

#5. Was the
fun in the fall?

Ellen Hopkins

#6. I refuse to live in ignorance and helplessness.

Amber Argyle

#7. She touched you twice,' he said in a little while. 'The first touch was to bring you to life again, but the second was for you.

Peter S. Beagle

#8. If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.

Mark Twain

#9. When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#10. All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#11. Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

Ellen Hopkins

#12. I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing
everything just right? Taking no chances means
wasting your dreams.

Ellen Hopkins

#13. Girls get Screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for

Ellen Hopkins

#14. We used to do coke, till "Just Say No" put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly.

Ellen Hopkins

#15. I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#16. I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself.

Ellen Hopkins

#17. Leadership view is multidimensional with the full spectrum of colors.

Pearl Zhu

#18. See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

John Milton

#19. As I thought
about that, I had
to wonder: What will we
know better about tomorrow?
Who cares? Hindsight is useless.

Ellen Hopkins

#20. I'm not imagining me being the James Bond girl, because anyway I don't have the good maturation.

Audrey Tautou

#21. I wanted to meet the monster.
Why go down if you can go up?

Ellen Hopkins

#22. I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

Tatiana Maslany

#23. Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while

Ellen Hopkins

#24. It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing