Quotes About Maps And Cartography

#1. There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

P.T. Barnum

#2. Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.

Jack Dangermond

#3. Your problem is that you should like yourself better." Of course, he was right - but how could she like herself when she felt she had no self ?

Gloria Steinem

#4. I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going
in a sense it's three tenses in one.

Peter Greenaway

#5. Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.

Pat Burns

#6. Uncharted territory," I said. "The parts on the maps of our lives that we don't understand. In cartographer's language they call these places sleeping beauties.

Christopher Barzak

#7. I made three films with Boris Karloff. He was absolutely wonderful.

Christopher Lee

#8. There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

Stella Benson

#9. Don't always believe the advice of financial adviser / intermediary consultant because they might have misguided you to sale their product. You chose your product according to your needs.

R.K. Mohapatra

#10. To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper
maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all ... They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.

Robert Harbison

#11. It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But if your airplane breaks down, you can't sit on a convenient cloud and tinker with that!

Katherine Stinson

#12. When reached for comment on the charges, Martha didn't say much, (only) that a subpoena should be served with a nice appetizer.

Conan O'Brien

#13. Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [ ... ] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does.

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

Jose Saramago

#15. I've seen other universes. I've been to them.
And I destroyed them.

Laini Taylor

#16. When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place.

Margaret Cho

#17. Did you finish the key? I asked him.

Joseph Delaney

#18. Maps codify the miracle of existence.

Nicholas Crane

#19. You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

Yitzhak Rabin

#20. Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

Gilles Deleuze

#21. What was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at it?

Nayantara Sahgal