Mapstone Quotes

#1. I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.

T. Boone Pickens

#2. In today's vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the many mysteries that remain about the workings of organisms.

Francois Jacob

#3. Inspiration is like arrows or bullets. As soon as they're shot out, they whiz past till they hit you, knocking you back with shock and wonder. That's inspiration.

Amelia Mapstone

#4. I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph of someone's face, it identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment, it's everybody. It's not one person.

Annette Messager

#5. You are ignorant, boy," said Miss Lupescu. "This is bad. And you are content to be ignorant, which is worse.

Neil Gaiman

#6. And don't think you can lay down the load, ever. Because you can't. I know.

Margaret Mitchell

#7. To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen not to regard him with interest, it is one of the fictions of courtesy to presume that he does.

Thomas De Quincey

#8. Yes." His gaze grew distant. "If I'd have the chance, if my position permitted, I would have pleaded with her not to accept the mission because of the danger, and because I couldn't bear the thought of ... "
"Of losing her?

Kristen Britain

#9. If everyone else just goes outside of the box like they are told to, where do I go? Just back to the inside of the box?
I don't think so.

Amelia Mapstone

#10. The fashion sector is very hot in New York, especially the fashion tech sector, and a lot of women have been the leaders in the industry.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#11. The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

Carl Andre

#12. Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

Jonathan Messinger

#13. Perhaps, if I make a friend
of the mountain cuckoo
in this world,
he will talk to me
when we cross the mountain of death

Izumi Shikibu

#14. Getting a second life is one thing. Making it a better life, that's the trick.

Rick Riordan

#15. I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.

Lesley Howarth

#16. Like other intellectuals, he welcomed the mindless drudgery as a refreshing change of pace.

Philip Zaleski

#17. If we let all the negative roadblocks influence us then it's only a matter of time before we end up detoured, lost, or possibly stranded on the side of the highway. Our positive attitude keeps our battery powered and our gas tank full, so that we can make it in one piece to our destination.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#18. Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?

William Shakespeare