Maps Quotations | Page 2

People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn’t be a pin for me.

Life is a journey I don't have a map for

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

We've taken a page from our friends in the maps teams and borrowed a bit from the desktop team.

We don't know the number of students for next year, but when we do, we'll determine if more portables are needed at each school. We will create campus maps with all potential future portable sites. We'll then bring ideas by the board so that they can see what the plan is.

A language is a map of our failures

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?

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…

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!

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.

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

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

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.

It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to the time when you want to be.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...

The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but they will see there's very limited space. And the space they have open, I'd be surprised if they (have) any luck finding a place to live,

We put out packets to go to the centers where the people would be. They'll have information in there with maps and little pocket resumes, pencils, paper, you know those kinds of things.

By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.

The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

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

Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses - places where statements that seem to obey all the language's rules are nevertheless impossible to deal with.

...When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle."Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.

Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.

"Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in the margins. Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.

Folk Music is the map of singing.

We'll be going back out probably late this year year and starting the whole process again of rebuilding the maps and getting advertisers." ()

I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that.

We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

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.

That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.

Why are old maps always burnt?

With all the maps on one DVD, it's a very simple process which takes seconds rather than fiddling about with multiple CD-ROMs which hold less data. And, while we provide a 256MB card out of the box, if you install a larger 1 GB memory card for example, you could have maps for four or five countries on your phone.

We are proud to be able to offer such a wide variety of maps and guides for people to plan their visit, as well as souvenirs that hold memories of the enjoyable time they had.

We are pleased to offer this enhanced map coverage for those who live, work, and travel in Eastern Europe. Through our relationship with NAVTEQ, we are able to offer consumers some of the most detailed and up-to-date maps available anywhere.

We are pleased to partner with The Map Network on these innovative online and print maps for Super Bowl XL at Ford Field in Detroit. They are essential for attendees, media and staff planning for and navigating the event through the week, but they also offer an entertaining virtual tour for those wanting to see all the exciting activities in the city during the Super Bowl.

At this point, I think everyone understands that maps are a great way of presenting information and there are probably opportunities there, and that's long overdue.

Every listing in the system is geo-coded by ZIP code at the very least. We add integrated maps from Live Local. The feedback we get is that it is fantastic for garage sales.

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.

The spontaneous understanding of geometrical concepts and maps by this remote human community provides evidence that core geometrical knowledge is a universal constituent of the human mind.

The state has demanded maps from mining companies from the beginning, so there is a good map library. But, those maps were mainly a way for the state to collect royalties. That means that some shafts were not mapped.

We will have more information when the application is submitted to the county, including maps and proposed turbine locations, ... What I can say is that the application will be radically changed from what it was.

The scale is 1 inch equals 2,000 feet, or about 21/2 inches per mile. The maps don't show underwater depth contours because they change so much due to the heavy current.

The rise in computer-related crimes and the technology used in these crimes is hard to keep up with. These classes help us with the mechanics; they're like road maps on computer forensics.

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

We didn't intend those maps to be used for development purposes,

The most important news here is that the viable flood maps are being issued today. I think it's important because it brings certainty to some uncertain issues along the greater New Orleans area.

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.

First, we created a map and driving guide of Braddock's Road, which follows the route that his army took from Fort Necessity to Braddock. We published 10,000 of these maps and distributed most of them through Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau sites, county welcome sites, and through the Westmoreland County Federated Library System.

There's no map to human behaviour.

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

This article will tell you exactly where to go to catch halibut and what to use. Fishing & Hunting News has introduced anglers to thousands of the most productive fishing and hunting areas over the past 51 years and featured precise maps of the very best places to go.

A first step in reconstruction is re-drawing maps of the 650 affected villages in the tsunami zone. Teams of Indonesian farmers are working with villagers under guidelines to identify and agree on public and private property lines.

This is not to say that we do not have some concerns. However, we still believe that there is work to do to improve these maps before they become permanent.

I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps for him on isometric paper. It was very bonding.

I hope they adopt the advisory maps as recommended. I think it's the right thing to do to protect the city.

The bad debt overhang has this market trapped in a range. It flew on hopes for (Prime Minister Junichiro) Koizumi reforms, but has little chance of breaking out until he maps out a more concrete plan to clean up the mess.

Everyone has the same concern and interests -- that the flood maps be available for the four parishes as soon as possible.

It (Sierra Art Trails) is a two day event. People can buy a little catalog with maps and get to come and visit all of us,

They did a very thorough job documenting their claim with maps and so forth. They seem to have put together a solid case and we'll be very happy to review it.

The urban heat-island effect does help to create thunderstorms. But mostly downstream from a city. Rainfall maps across Texas show slightly higher precipitation amounts downstream of most Texas cities, but it's more noticeable with cities the size of Dallas-Fort Worth.

Canada has always claimed our sovereignty over Hans Island. Denmark does the same. We have to dig out maps of 40 years ago and this sort of thing. ... We will take the time it takes in resolving it in a mature way.

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

They wanted to do more maps for other areas along the Gulf Coast, but no one wanted to pay for it.

The script is your map of the world, isn't it? And if someone knows that if it's well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.

Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace.

I never thought it was a dangerous prospect until journalists brought it up. It does get intense, because we know the maps of each others' heads, and we know where the self-destruct buttons are. But I feel more open with these guys. I can trust them. As for Charlotte, we have tunnel vision. We want to be together forever.

The earnest weatherman is even more hilarious than in America because his forecasts of change are even more unchanging, and his wondrous maps are always pocked with countless rain cloud symbols that seem permanently rooted across the beloved isle.

The i5 gives customers exactly what they want -- a compact, affordable, portable GPS device with pre-loaded maps at an incredibly low price point. It's the perfect out-of- the-box, entry-level car navigation system.

The maps are delivered at sub-second speed and are easy to read, which is a real value add-on for our customers as they go about their busy, day-to-day lives.

I think if you had to map that out at the beginning and you said, "Right, sit down, this is what you're going to be doing," you'd probably freak out. But I'm someone who really enjoys not being himself. So if you consider that, then it all sort of makes sense.

These incomparable maps paint a stark and compelling picture. The area that appears to be free of human pressure is large enough for the federal government to meet its goal to expand and consolidate the protected areas system by 2010. However, the government must act quickly because the opportunities are diminishing rapidly.

Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.

If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.

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

It's the rest of the world, Mexico, Latin America or the Middle East and we're doing more work in Africa as well. And these are places where GIS maps have not been traditionally made.

It's a highly visible landmark that will help make Randolph County and the entire Triad region stand out on maps and in people's mind's.

It's fair to say the benefits of scale are pretty much unproven. Selected acquisitions are fine if you can demonstrate that you add value, but I hope the days of people putting flags on maps are behind us.

We go to a helicopter flying over New Orleans, where they're narrating what they see -- there are people trapped on a roof somewhere. Then we bring in Tom Forman, who used to be a reporter in New Orleans. We're looking at satellite maps of the city, comparing this with video feeds that come in, then we'll zoom in on Google Earth, see what's nearby -- a university, Lake Pontchartrain -- and all of this together delivers the story in a richer, more immediate way.

I took him in a couple of maps and told him here's how to get around.

This maps onto Yankee Group research. We, too, have found that men are heavier users of these technologies than women, and better educated people tend to have more consumer-electronic devices than other segments.

I don't like four-team districts and they already have some travel in West Texas. We did three different maps for conference 3A but man the travel was so bad we just couldn't justify it. We put some of those districts next to each other so they could match up.

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.

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

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.