Quotes About Maps

#1. He loved three things alone:
White peacocks, evensong,
old maps of America.
He hated children crying,
and raspberry jam with his tea,
and womanish hysteria.
...And then he married me.


1911

Anna Akhmatova

#2. Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

David E. Goldberg

#3. Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

Ken Jennings

#4. The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to find your way to your destination ... In short, the goal of truth goes without saying, in every human culture.

Daniel Dennett

#5. We knew the difference between that which cannot be expressed and that which must. We understood that while words are a path taking us only so far, they are a requisite to the journey. They are like road maps that show us which way to go.

Laura Bynum

#6. When Apple introduced its game-changing iPhone in 2007, Nokia was caught sleeping on the job. Although it had actually developed an iPhone-style device - complete with a color touchscreen, maps, online shopping, the lot - some seven years earlier. Astonishingly, it never released the product.

Noreena Hertz

#7. My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.

Dudley R. Herschbach

#8. If I had a wish it would be this: that Google maps could take me, not to just anywhere on the planet, but to anywhere in time.

Janet Turpin Myers

#9. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

Peggy McIntosh

#10. The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.

Richard Paul Evans

#11. It's like I woke up in another country and all the maps in my head have only made me more lost.

Laurel Garver

#12. The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

Philip Pullman

#13. At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists of provisions and equipment I would need when I went camping in the summer.

Michelle Magorian

#14. Her areas of expertise are bar codes, book titles and maps - she has an original Parker Brothers map of the world.

Jasper Fforde

#15. Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.

David Christian

#16. Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.

Noah Hawley

#17. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#18. They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

Gerald Durrell

#19. 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

#20. It was a beautifully simple picture these procession leaders had. It was as though a navigator, in order to free his mind of worries, had erased all the reefs from his maps. - Chapter 21

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

Bryan Appleyard

#22. I know nothing about and how else the Society might have altered maps over the years. There must be a world past the Enemy territory. How much has been erased and taken away?

Ally Condie

#23. All maps are fiction when the world is seen from the sky. But if ten thousand dragons choose to believe in this one, I think you will find it nearer truth than otherwise.

Naomi Novik

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

Jose Saramago

#25. Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.

Debby Ryan

#26. My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

Jude Deveraux

#27. Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet.

Kelly Link

#28. Writing is traveling through uncharted territory - your mind. You are the first traveler, and your essays are the world's first maps.

Harry Bauld

#29. Scientists have shown that because positive and open mindsets produce exploration and experiential learning, they also come to produce more-accurate mental maps of the world.

Barbara Fredrickson

#30. There I am in my younger days, star gazing
Painting picture perfect maps
Of how my life and love would be
Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection
My compass, faith in love's perfection
I missed ten million miles I should have seen.

Indigo Girls

#31. this posterior firing of maps of the body represents a primary cortical representation and may involve the parietal lobe - a region that may turn out to play an important role in self-awareness and a sense of identity (for further

Daniel J. Siegel

#32. Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.

Lubos Motl

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

Mark Jenkins

#34. We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

Catherynne M Valente

#35. Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/
as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps.

Kay Ryan

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

Mary Schmich

#37. Principles are the territory. Values are maps.

Stephen Covey

#38. I've been touring a lot, and I don't always know how to get around. Google Maps on the iPhone is pretty helpful with that.

Joe Trohman

#39. Secrets are dark things. They don't exist in the light. They
glow faintly in forgotten corners, in mysterious mind-nooks,
in lost memory maps. Secrets are the shadows of the soul.

Sukanya Venkatraghavan

#40. Ever the collector of treasure maps that promised the world but led nowhere.

Justina Chen

#41. I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

Ken Jennings

#42. Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.

Bob Dylan

#43. Obstacles are maps inside out.
Troubles are opportunities inside out.
Failures are lessons inside out.
Burdens are blessings inside out.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#44. What you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates,

Caitlin Moran

#45. Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.

Bill Bryson

#46. Maps had always interested her; there was something bewitching in knowing one's precise location in relation to others on the earth.

Sarah J. Maas

#47. We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

Daniel Goleman

#48. 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

#49. Why did the stories I knew best never end well?
But why too did I feel at home among them?
I could never give up the myths, the maps, the ship that had shaped me.
Blake's home might be paradise, but my home was the Temptation.

Heidi Heilig

#50. Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go.

Joey Comeau

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

Darrel Ray

#52. Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates, to tell you where you're going.

Caitlin Moran

#53. So you want me to track down a supernaturally fast sniper who can disappear into thin air, retrieve your maps, and do it so nobody finds out what I'm doing or why?'
'Exactly.'
I sighed. 'I'll get the paperwork.

Ilona Andrews

#54. There are no maps. You can't map a sense of humor.

Terry Pratchett

#55. We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Nelson DeMille

#56. Of course some of us had some geography in school and had studied maps, but a school map is a terribly uncommunicative thing.

Robertson Davies

#57. On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

William Least Heat-Moon

#58. I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

Charlize Theron

#59. The store that was Agloe no longer stands. But I believe that if we were to put it back on our maps, someone would eventually rebuild it.

John Green

#60. Taoists don't have any maps.

Osho

#61. Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.

Roy Bennett

#62. he knew from studying maps in preparation: the broad avenues leading to the Brandenburg Gate. He had played Bach's Brandenburg Concertos records many times, intricate magic alive in the air. The gate that led to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel.

Gregory Benford

#63. Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.

Richard Brautigan

#64. You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.

Robert Scoble

#65. Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

Harold Morowitz

#66. I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.

Anne Fadiman

#67. My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Jorge Luis Borges

#68. More than a billion people have downloaded Google Earth. More than a billion people use Google Maps. They are very comfortable tools for people to explore the planet in high resolution.

Rebecca Moore

#69. The future is unknown. Prophecy contaminates it with the past, which is why liberated people do not bother with fortunetelling or astrology, and why the happy traveler wanders and does not let himself be the slave of maps, guidebooks, and schedules, using them but not being used by them.

Alan W. Watts

#70. I had to put away my toy so it didn't get lost. After all, cats can't read maps or ask for directions, and they don't possess GPS.

Jarod Kintz

#71. Maps codify the miracle of existence.

Nicholas Crane

#72. Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

Loren Eiseley

#73. He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

Andrew Vachss

#74. 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

#75. Like the medieval cartographers of Europe, who felt one would fall into endless space at the edges of the oceans of their maps, we fear the presumed nothingness of no-self. Fortunately, there have been many spiritual circumnavigators who have returned to tell the tale of the beauty beyond self.

Kathleen Dowling Singh

#76. I suppose, in some sense, wills are like maps: they are the imprint we leave, the places our affections have been entrenched; the work we have done; the money we have burrowed away; the furrows and the paths that lead back to spaces we have gone, and marked, and loved.

Lauren Oliver

#77. The eight-acre underground was so sprawling that for months after the park first opened, guides had to be stationed in the tunnels to redirect lost employees. Soon after, the tunnel walls were color-coded by land and maps were posted at each intersection to help newcomers find their way.

David Koenig

#78. Data gathered on the Shuttle and ISS help power Google Maps;

Chris Hadfield

#79. Gabriel thought maps should be banned. They gave the world an order and reasonableness which it did not possess.
'An Ice-cream War

William Boyd

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

Muhammad Ali

#81. Oh God, you're one of those pimps that takes girls off the streets and gets them addicted to drugs and turns them into prostitutes, aren't you?! My future suddenly maps out in front of me. I can see myself all greasy hair, short skirts and ripped tights, getting into stranger's cars.

Samantha Towle

#82. David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster.

Steve Erickson

#83. Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

Ben Parr

#84. The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

Bob Dylan

#85. I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes ... are maps ... I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail

Adrienne Rich

#86. New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.

Bill Dedman

#87. And for the first time in his life Peter understood what the opposite of lost was: that it had nothing to do with maps or directions or staying on course; that it was, in fact, nothing more than being found.

Jennifer E. Smith

#88. True places are not found on maps.

Herman Melville

#89. We're all just a conglomeration of our nervous habits. I see them like road maps in each conversation telling me more about the people than their words.
stripping people of simple things weakens them.

Sarah Noffke

#90. There are those who follow maps, and those who make them.

Alberto Villoldo

#91. We have better maps of Mars than we do of our own seabeds. At

Bill Bryson

#92. While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps - this has always been part of its greater revenue model: the pennies per placement it gets for seeding the entire Google universe of search and services with ever more targeted advertising.

Douglas Rushkoff

#93. Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

David Christian

#94. few days, or even weeks." Weeks. "And now we beg, borrow or steal another vehicle and slip out of town?" "Bingo." Ray flipped the glove compartment open and dug around inside, extracting a flashlight, some maps and a first aid kit. "Though borrowing is out. We don't wanna lead men

Norah Wilson

#95. It's the edges of the maps that fascinate ...

David Mitchell

#96. None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

Stephen Covey

#97. All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact.

Paula Scher

#98. Maps, contour maps and all maps, intrigue us for the metaphors that they are: tools to give us a sense of something whose truth is far richer but without which we would perceive nothing and never find our bearings.

Zia Haider Rahman

#99. Because this territory in my internal universe is continually shifting, I've learned to look for patterns and rhythms in the chaos that I can use as guides when I can't locate steady ground. So I make maps from my memories. I make my maps out of words and stories.

Sascha Altman DuBrul

#100. Your horrific time of trouble offered you truths about yourself, windows into your own soul, and maps to the terrain of your inner life. Wise people learn to gather this intelligence to help them conquer themselves and then to live in loftier ways.

Stephen Mansfield