Rackham Quotes

#1. The world is full of grief - to the exact degree we allow ourselves to love other people. (Mazer Rackham)

Orson Scott Card

#2. N MY early boyhood I was enraptured by the great fairytale illustrators of the period: Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Kay Nielsen. As a schoolboy, I was to discover Aubrey Beardsley, and I was extremely fond of an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with most imaginative drawings by Heath Robinson,

John Gielgud

#3. Ender grinned back. "Teacher," he said. "Do you have a name?" "Mazer Rackham," said the old man.

Orson Scott Card

#4. William pouts irritably. Socialism is not the same thing as letting one's servants muddle towards anarchy. But never mind, never mind: on a day like today, it's not worth worrying over. Soon the servant question, at least in William Rackham's household, will be resolved beyond any ambiguity.

Michel Faber

#5. If you would have fought like a man you wouldn't have to die like a dog."
(Anne Bonny to John "Calico Jack" Rackham)

Anne Bonny

#6. Pirates almost never sailed with women. Just four or five are known to have worked as pirates during the Golden Age. Two of them - Mary Read and Anne Bonny - became famous, dressing as men and fighting alongside one of the most celebrated of all pirate captains, 'Calico' Jack Rackham.

Robert Kurson

#7. A truly modern man, William Rackham is what might be called a superstitious atheist Christian; that is, he believes in a God who, while He may no longer be responsible for the sun rising, the saving of the Queen or the provision of daily bread, is still the prime suspect when anything goes wrong.

Michel Faber

#8. My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Frederik Pohl

#9. Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state.

Elizabeth Van Lew

#10. Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?

Neil Rackham

#11. One day your heart will take you to your Lover.
One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved.
Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your
pain will become your cure.

Rumi

#12. The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

Art Spiegelman

#13. Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness!

Chris Oyakhilome

#14. One survival technique is a lack of wastefulness; the African puts everything to use.

David Lamb

#15. True gratitude can never come
From the mind.
It has to flow from the heart
To the mind, vital and body
Until everything that we have and are
Is a sea of gratitude.

Sri Chinmoy

#16. I went out with a promiscuous impressionist - she did everybody.

Jay London

#17. For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

Arthur Rackham

#18. My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.

Caterina Murino

#19. Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

Eric Kandel

#20. Whoever said running in the morning gives you energy never had a day job that involves customer service.

Caroline Kepnes

#21. The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

Kate Adie

#22. Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Orson Scott Card

#23. There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

Gus Van Sant

#24. They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.

E. M. Forster

#25. Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

Arthur Rackham

#26. Successful people ask a lot more questions during sales calls than do their less successful colleagues. We found that these less successful people tend to do most of the talking.

Neil Rackham

#27. Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

Rebecca Goldstein

#28. The most important advance in selling for many years

Neil Rackham

#29. All the angels in the whole universe care about you; and if God wants to dispatch them all, He can do it.

David Jeremiah