Mercator Quotes

#1. What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply "They are merely conventional signs!

Lewis Carroll

#2. The earth's round, like an orange, but this map is like its skin, cut off in ovals, north to south, laid flat and stretched a bit at the top and bottom. A Dutchman called Mercator invented the way to do this accurately twenty years ago. It's the first accurate world map.

James Clavell

#3. What an author shapes into a coherent argument, or weaves into a story, is always much more interesting than the thought process behind it.

Rob Parnell

#4. Clarity and peace of mind are powerful tools. Achieving either (and both) is only possible when we allow ourselves to "see" life in all its variance.

Carlos Wallace

#5. A mirror reflects appearance but only actions reflect beauty

Janna Cachola

#6. Careful. I don't want to have to do that again. Your veins are hard to find. You'd make a great pincushion for any trainee phlebotomist."
"Gee, thanks," I muttered, rolling my eyes. "I've always wanted to be someone's guinea pig.

Shaye Evans

#7. God's on your side; be on God's side!

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. In the long run, any system that depends on your willpower will fail.

Scott Adams

#9. A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

Hermann Hesse

#10. Honey, Don't go shooting all the dogs 'cause one of them's got fleas

Paul Newman

#11. Maps codify the miracle of existence.

Nicholas Crane

#12. When I saw that Moses' version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and the rest of the philosophers, I began to have doubts about the truth of all philosophers and started to investigate the secrets of nature.

Gerardus Mercator

#13. I know I'm a champion. I know I've got it in me, they can't stop me.

Lil B