Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.
Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk away with big money to support their research or to fund their crackpot solutions.
I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!
For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end. . . such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
Jesus was a crackpot.
Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.
One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.
Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.
When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.
