Cranking Quotations

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

There were times I didn't think we would ever make it, even when we were cranking two out a year.

My dream job would be sitting in a room, cranking out hits for Rihanna.

If the Fed stops raising rates, the market will blame them if inflation gets too hot, and if they keep cranking up interest rates, then the real estate market is at risk. It's a somewhat challenging environment.

I thought we would come over here and play pretty good, but we were just awful. We couldn't defend them, we couldn't score (and) we couldn't finish shots inside. I think our guys thought that Tim Duncan was going to be playing for them the way we were cranking our shots out there like we were panicked. That's been a problem for us and it was pretty obvious this game.

I think the sector is cranking along and there's a couple of stocks that will do well out of that disaster (the destruction in New Orleans).

Looking ahead beyond the current gloom, there is a serious risk that we already have inflationary forces baked into the system. By late spring, the Fed could be cranking up interest rates even faster than they cut them.

I would agree that the U.S. educational system, especially at the undergraduate and graduate levels, needs some work, but in the meantime, we seem to be cranking out people who are capable,

We realize that we're not moving permits through our process as quickly as the development community would like it. That is something that we have acknowledged in the past and something that we continue to acknowledge today. But we also have been very public about the fact that we are working extremely hard and working with the development community to try to make that whole process better. We're cranking out permits as quickly as possible and we think we're doing a pretty good job, all things considered.

We were having trouble executing any kind of offense. I could feel their intensity cranking up.

We'll start cranking up probably next week. The common mistakes are mostly math errors and (people) forgetting to sign their returns.

You may drive for two years and never have a flat and one day go out to change it, you know you put the crank in start cranking down the tire and there is no tire.

Engineers are in short supply, so that kicks up the demand - even here, where the district is thought of as one of the better employers. The schools just aren't cranking them out.

And the first notes it played, there was dust everywhere. It was like an old car cranking over after sitting for a long time.

The Reserve Bank will be happy with this result and be content to sit on the sidelines. Companies are wearing some of the price pressure rather than passing it on. When consumers are tightening their purses, retailers don't want to be cranking up prices.

Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone's stuck for an idea, that's what they do. I mean, to the extent that it's been embraced by an entire idiom of club music and culture.

I've gotten into the habit of cranking out a set of push-ups before each show to get my blood pumping and find my focus. I worked my way up from eight to 30. That was a real accomplishment.

This is a very hard business even if everything is cranking on all cylinders. You can talk to anyone working in minor-league sports. You've got to have a real passion for it.

I missed work today because of this. It won't start because it's carbureted and it's cold. So you just keep cranking until the battery is just about worn down.

I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music.

Inventories are actually still 7 million barrels above the three-year average. Once these refineries start cranking back up, I think you'll see supplies rise pretty quickly.

If you think about it, $100,000 in terms of a recording is not a lot of money. For musicians who are cranking out a lot of this uninteresting commercial music, it is not unusual for that amount of money to be allocated for the lunch commemorating the signing of one of their recording contracts.

Honestly, I never had a market where people were standing in line. So, I wasn't under any pressure to be cranking out something in order to pay for my sports car,

Jeez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type.