Territory Quotes
The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.
We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, there should be a dialogue on these issues.
Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.
We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.
Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It's just a matter of timing. It's like you've marked your territory.
The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.
There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.
We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.
A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.
In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.
All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.
Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.
The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.
We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today.
It feels good to push yourself into uncomfortable territory. There's nothing more thrilling than feeling like, "This train might just come off the rails right now, in front of these people".
But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.
Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.
Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.
In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.
All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?
In a crisis, we will destroy exactly the weapons. Russia will never again fight on its own territory .
None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.
What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.
With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.
The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.
I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.
They kissed for the sort of endless moment that only exists between lovers whose lips are still new territory to one another.
Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats.
If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.
Today, we see ISIS dwindling. We see that terrorist organization, with all their bravado, losing their territory and going back from a proto-state to an underground terrorist organization.
Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.
When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.
I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
I consider Ric Flair to be one of the great comedic minds. But I never got to see him growing up because that was back when they still had territories.