Maps Quotations | Page 3

If the veins in the back of your legs look like the street map of greater Pittsburgh, you ain't nobody's babydoll.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

I wisely started with a map.

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.

True places are not found on maps.

Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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.

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.

AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter)

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

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

I have always loved maps.

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

My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can't hide the marks It's not a negative thing.

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.

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.

Finland must not be allowed to disappear off the map.

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

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.

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

It's just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use.

... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!

i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't.

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

All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. Yᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴠᴇɴ'ᴛ ʜᴇᴀʀᴅ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ Bᴀʏ Oғ Mᴀɴᴛᴇ, ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ? he said. “No, sir,” said Mort. Fᴀᴍᴏᴜs sʜɪᴘᴡʀᴇᴄᴋ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ. “Was there?” Tʜᴇʀᴇ ᴡɪʟʟ ʙᴇ, said Death, ɪғ I ᴄᴀɴ ғɪɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀᴍɴ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ.

At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

There's no map for being an artist.

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.

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

Art is the act of navigating without a map.

I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that's your own.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

You are saved, not because of what you do, but because of what Christ did. And you are special, not because of what you do, but because of whose you are. And you are his. And because we are his, let's forget the shortcuts and stay on the main road. He knows the way. He drew the map. He knows the way home.

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

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

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.

If a train doesn’t stop at your station, it’s simply because it’s not your train. Don’t try to flag down the conductor and convince them to stop there, even if their own map says that they should just keep going. You may not realize it, but there’s another train trying to come toward you, unable to get into your station because a train that doesn’t even belong there is being delayed there by your intensity.

There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.

Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.

I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, "It may appear that I'm going to go haywire, but I'm not." I always map out what I'm going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised.

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

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

Israel must be wiped off the map.

I carried recipes in my head like maps.

I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.

Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?

She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists.

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. Peter, you see, just said anything that came into his head.

I've always been fascinated with marine geography and how deep things are. I was spellbound by the tsunami, for example, by the actual maps. There is just something about the unseen bottom of the sea that has always fascinated me, how deep is it.

The display will include a map of Buffalo with photos and locations of the buildings pictured in the book, and maps will be available at no charge. The map itself is great and is sure to be a big hit with students.

Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map,

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.

My first occupation was to map the country.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

If there is a God, there is a map. If God has a map, his map is the true map.

The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to Life, and there is the road that leads to Death. There is Good, and there is Evil. There is Right and there is Wrong.

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.

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.

One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than the picture of life we habitually carry around with us. But if we want to, there is a practical way to look at that picture and change it. Here is the way of the Treasure Map.

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography,

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

As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It’s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.

The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

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

Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.

Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

The mind map will change your life.

The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.

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.

So, if I looked him up on google maps-

A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.

You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

You won’t let me buy any clothes. Now you won’t let me buy a road map, either! I need to spend some money or I’m going to go crazy!

Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself

The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.

We were just looking at maps...

Your abilities are the map to God's will for your life. It points the direction. When you know what you're good at, then you can know what God wants you to do with your life.

Gods plan isn't a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time.

Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.

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

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.

What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?