Raffle Prize Quotes

#1. Mason had just pulled his own knife out, a monster of a thing you could've called a sword without much fear of correction.

Joe Abercrombie

#2. I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

Terry Gilliam

#3. What's your brand? If you can't answer that question about your own brand in two or three words, your brand's in trouble.

Al Ries

#4. It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

Albert Einstein

#5. ( ... ) there was actually nothing, and /you/ were nothing, and it was all a delusion. And that you were better than everyone else because you saw that it was a delusion, and yet you were worse because you couldn't function.

David Foster Wallace

#6. If we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul" can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#7. Why can't we just loosen our belts, take off our heels, and cheerfully rot, like the boys?

Caitlin Moran

#8. As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.

T. Colin Campbell

#9. 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Maurice Sendak

#10. Thomas is 'crazy as a sprayed roach' when you make him mad, but he has a heart as big as Texas too.

Christina Mobley

#11. As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.

Marcus Aurelius

#12. A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.

Henry Ford

#13. The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.

Richard A. Proctor