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When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

Ove Arup
Study, Architect, Cranes

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pain, Cranes, Falcon
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, p.44, Penguin UK

I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

David James Elliott
Men, Hollywood, Cranes
"David James Elliott Plunges into Sci Fi's Knights of Bloodsteel". Interview with Erin Fox, www.tvguide.com. April 17, 2009.

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!

Robert Jordan
Golden, Cranes
Robert Jordan (2010). “Knife of Dreams: Book Eleven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.473, Macmillan

I like audiences to crane their necks.

Robert Altman
Necks, Cranes, Audience
"Still up to mischief" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.

Gary Shteyngart
Mother, Necks, Cranes
Gary Shteyngart (2014). “Little Failure: A Memoir”, p.45, Random House

... the constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be a shortage of whooping cranes when you've seen a thousand images of them - seen ten times more images than there are actually whooping cranes left in the wild?

Bill McKibben
World, Flow, Cranes

In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.

Alex Shoumatoff
Three, Cranes, Continents

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