Map Quotes

#1. This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.

Francis Crick

#2. The thin-plate spline algorithm can handle local deformations in the map, and is therefore very useful when working with very low-quality map scans. The

Anita Graser

#3. The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States on the map. Al Qaeda, traditionally, are much more educated, middle-class people, often from Egypt, from Saudi Arabia, North Africa.

Rory Stewart

#4. I have no sympathy for the people who went to Charlie Sheen's show and were disappointed. That didn't seem very organized! That guy's all over the map!

Andy Kindler

#5. A map of the moon ... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcanic operations. Our sublimest volcanoes would rank among the smaller lunar eminences; and our Etnas are but spitting furnaces.

James Dwight Dana

#6. The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#7. If you look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out into the Mediterranean Sea.

Will Durant

#8. Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

Mark Jenkins

#9. ...the mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#10. It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

Katherine Mansfield

#11. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.

Jean Baudrillard

#12. The Bible is a Perfect Map and Chart to the Christian on Pilgrimage Through the World.

George Frederick Pentecost

#13. I have been asked sometimes what led me to the Persian Gulf, what instinct told me that I could build up a business there. It's really perfectly simple. If you go to the hottest and most uncomfortable place on the map you'll find there's not a lot of competition;

Nevil Shute

#14. There's never been a map. Only a compass whose dial always knows where it's pointing.

Fennel Hudson

#15. (Reaching for the Bible on the end table.) There's an answer for every occasion in here. Like a map for life.

Max Lucado

#16. It is the first shower that wets."
"Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart."
"Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't

Tom McNeal

#17. You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Mary Schmich

#18. In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

William S. Burroughs

#19. Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

Silvan Shalom

#20. I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

Jodi Picoult

#21. I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

Mark McGwire

#22. At a Clinton press conference, I'm given the luxury of daydreaming, of being comfortable enough that he could find Peru on a map, say, that I don't have to hang on his every word, praying he won't fuck up.

Sarah Vowell

#23. Let yesterday be a map that guides your steps today, and tomorrow." "The

Lucian Bane

#24. But the fact was, Sherrie Marla trusted him already. When he took the ice off, and showed to her his new symmetry, she didn't flinch. His face was him to her now. It was not a map or an indicator of some abstract idea. Turned out it was only the first impression he needed to alter.

Aimee Bender

#25. Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

Miguel De Cervantes

#26. On Collateral Damage: "Every limb lost, every hovel burned, every wife left husbandless, and every child orphaned created ripples of anger and resentment. Create enough of them, and we'll one day wind up with a wave that will wash us off the map.

Chris Holm

#27. Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

Jodi Picoult

#28. There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

Meryl Streep

#29. I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

Richard Davidson

#30. You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.

Warren Buffett

#31. the children make of it what they can. What they don't understand today, they might tomorrow. "The Declaration is like a map. You trust that it's right, but you only know by going out and testing it yourself.

Colson Whitehead

#32. Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has written two or maybe three great books, and his latest, The Map and the Territory, is one of them.

Bret Easton Ellis

#33. Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft.

Marian Keyes

#34. For a great life a road map of life is more important than the journey itself.

Debasish Mridha

#35. Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance in the history of mankind, and for a long space has been signally under the protection of God and a seat of peace, liberty and truth.

John Newton

#36. My home is not a place. It's not a fixed location on the map; not Paris or New York. It is with Ava. Wherever she is - that is where I belong.

Amy Plum

#37. You'll be hard-pressed to reach your goals if you don't map out where you're going. Take time to navigate your life.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#38. The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure.

Eric Ludy

#39. Satellite imagery is the only way we can map the looting patterns effectively.

Sarah Parcak

#40. I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the country? You mean the thing on the map, lines, everything inside the lines is good and nothing outside them matters? How can an adult love such a childish idea?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#41. You can map out a whole city according to the weight of memory, like pins on the homicide board tracking the killer's movements. But the connections get thicker and denser and more complicated all the time.

Lauren Beukes

#42. There is something aesthetically pleasing about trading one engraving - and old map - for another - American money.

Sarah Vowell

#43. I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

Reif Larsen

#44. Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here ... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

Otto Von Bismarck

#45. I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

Jose Canseco

#46. Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.

Sarah Addison Allen

#47. The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will fit the facts better than others, and then the geometry which provides that particular map will be the geometry most important for applied mathematics.

G.H. Hardy

#48. Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

Simon Van Booy

#49. Adventure is not in a guidebook and Beauty is not on the map. Seek and ye shall find.

Terry Russell

#50. Hallelujah might be putting itself on the map, but that mark would be made in blood, as well as iron.

Devon Monk

#51. And all these things she always counted on to revisit, they made up a map, the map of a true home. It was the only place where she felt she had an identity and a history behind her.

Effrosyni Moschoudi

#52. The more you have seen, the larger your cognitive map, the more you can imagine.

Robert Gerlach

#53. Religion tries to give us maps of sexuality that are no better than a 2,000-year-old map of my hometown.

Darrel Ray

#54. Destination should not be determined based on a map you have. destination should be determined first, only thyen you can find a right map.

Clio Freya

#55. Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

Rebecca Solnit

#56. You can't use an old map to see a new land.

Gary Hamel

#57. President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.

Paula Poundstone

#58. A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.

Alexa Von Tobel

#59. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#60. The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

Steven Morrissey

#61. When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another ... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

Melissa Bank

#62. Three dot, a trinity, a way to map the universe,
three dot.

Peter Gabriel

#63. Being taken seriously means missing out on the chance to be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevant. The desire to be taken seriously is precisely what compels people to follow the tried and true paths of knowledge production around which I would like to map a few detours.

J. Jack Halberstam

#64. Failing to set goals is like setting out on a road trip without a map.

Michelle Moore

#65. There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at a map that shows widespread influenza activity in 36 states, that we regard it
from a common-sense perspective
as an epidemic.

Julie Gerberding

#66. How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Craig Thompson

#67. Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere.

Henry Wade

#68. My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.

Rachel Caine

#69. For productive collaboration adopt five principles: involve the relevant stakeholders, build consensus phase by phase, design a process map, designate a process facilitator and harness the power of group memory.

David Friedrich Strauss

#70. It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Stephen Hawking

#71. We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

Hanya Yanagihara

#72. Make a map of what you see,
Direct pain effectively.

Tegan Quin

#73. Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Muhammad Ali

#74. A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.

Paul Theroux

#75. Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor.

Luke Evans

#76. The lines on his long face are a road map of the secrets

AnnaLisa Grant

#77. Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair.

Dave Barry

#78. There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour ... There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

Bjork

#79. Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

Dave Grohl

#80. If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

Seth Godin

#81. According to a new geographic literacy study 4 out of 10 American students couldn't find Iraq on a map. However 10 out of 10 Mexicans could find the U.S. without a map.

Jay Leno

#82. If you wish to fly to new heights, begin by setting your sights on a destination you can reach and then create a flight plan, a map, that will be your guide.

Debbie Ford

#83. Lucas motions to Ro's ears, where the blood is spattering down to his shoulders. "Let's just get this done before our heads explode." Ro considers him for a long moment, then hands him Tima's map.

Margaret Stohl

#84. We would all prefer to see much further ahead. We want the road map and to know the short cuts. But usually we only have enough light for the next step. To get anywhere we must take that.

Tim Costello

#85. Medical Marijuana Deserves Equal Rights. Equal Rights For Consumers And Equal Rights For Businesses. In The Meantime, Read My Book And Get On The Map For Your Best Investment.

Jay Hidoshi

#86. The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

Gregory Bateson

#87. On our life map, he drew a bright circle around twelve through eighteen. This was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to reemerge on corners and prison tiers.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#88. What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual's soul.

Alice Hoffman

#89. I just think that it's very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.

Shakira

#90. What we did is we used NASA topography data to map out the landscape, very subtle changes. We started to be able to see where the Nile used to flow.

Sarah Parcak

#91. The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

Alexander Smith

#92. It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was ...

Alice Hoffman

#93. In this little night-covered world with you, I hope to find what I long for; a clue, a map, a bird flying south, and when the light comes we will get dressed together and go.

Jeanette Winterson

#94. She was a road trip without a map.

Georgia Clark

#95. Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Angelina Jolie

#96. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless.

Neil Gaiman

#97. Believe the terrain, not the map

Brian Kernighan

#98. Popular and unpopular don't necessarily map to shit and shinola, of course.

Hal Duncan

#99. Art is important for it commemorates the seasons of the soul, or a special or tragic event in the soul's journey. Art is not just for oneself, not just a marker of one's own understanding. It is also a map for those who follow after us. As

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#100. Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map.

Ed Stetzer