Map Reading Quotes

#1. It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.

J.K. Rowling

#2. In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natural world, desperate to feel. I did not realize while reading Render how deeply I was handing everything over.

Nikky Finney

#3. Every book is a journey, a map into the complexities of the human mind and soul.

Elif Shafak

#4. We only pass this way once..unless our significant other is reading the map..

K.j. Force

#5. Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#6. I'm not helping any of you freaks!" she shouts. "I'm not the Witch of Wayland, you hear me? I'm sick of all you mutants pounding on my door for love spells and all the like! I told you, I don't do that backwoods modern-day, wannabe Wiccafuck stuff! You hear me?

J.A. Redmerski

#7. Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

Joseph Monninger

#8. Google's competitors argue that Google designs its search display to promote Google 'products' like Google Maps, Google Places, and Google Shopping, ahead of competitors like MapQuest, Yelp, and product-search sites.

Marvin Ammori

#9. I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

Nick Hornby

#10. In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#11. Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.

Justina Chen

#12. Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

Junot Diaz

#13. He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers.
And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings.
So I am not flying alone now after all.

Elizabeth Wein

#14. I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?

Meryl Streep

#15. Science is not a boy's game, it's not a girl's game. It's everyone's game. It's about where we are and where we're going. Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.

Nichelle Nichols

#16. The evidence of death is before my eyes constantly. Moving from me outward. My death always a step in advance. The world is a mirror of myself dying. The world not dying anymore than I die. I more alive a hundred years from now. Than at this very moment.

Lydia Lunch

#17. 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

#18. All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

Erica Jong

#19. I took my schedule, my map, and my abject horror and made my way to class, reading it again and again as I went. Unfortunately it stayed the same every time.

Katja Millay

#20. Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.

Stephen King

#21. To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. I think you're a raging asshole.
Ruger laughed.
Yeah, well I think you're a bitch, but my cock likes you, so we'll figure something out.

Joanna Wylde