Maps Quotes

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.

Quintana of Charyn's body was a map of hatred.

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.

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

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.

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.

I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.

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

To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."

A map is not a journey.

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.

I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

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

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

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

We were just looking at maps.

I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.

the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don’t speak English. And who don’t count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can’t read maps.

Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended.

[Donald Trump] has a pretty sizable electoral map win, much more than anybody thought.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all.

I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.

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.

There's no map for being an artist.

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

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.

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

I don't really map anything out. I just let it happen [while writing]. But once it happens, it's always there. If it's laid, it's played. If I get to page 300 and it's not working, I junk it.

I love wandering. It's liberating to throw away the map and explore uncharted galleries. You'll nearly always stumble into something immensely interesting that way.

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.

I have a map of the united states .... it's original size ... it says one mile equals one mile.

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.

We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by human kind.

When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map out your viewing week.

Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.

Like a spider in its web, a vibration anywhereis felt everywhere.

Nature doesn’t need knowledge, because nature is knowledge, knowledge manifest.

That explains a lot, ' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.

I just don’t know where to go from here, Alex.”“You don’t have to, we can trace our map together.

You are my other self

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