Geography Quotes - Page 9

• Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Art, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.378, Library of America

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• History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Maps, Compass, Humans

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I think the idea of migration through time is very important because every human being does that and it unites us with people who migrate through geography.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Cinema informed my painting by the sheer geography - on locations, there is so much downtime. And when you're spending all this time creating art by committee, the concept of the singular voice is a pleasant antidote.

  Billy Zane

  Art, Voice, Creating

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to make field recordings of ice to create a symphony - acoustic portraits of ice.

  DJ Spooky

  Ice, Symphony, Acoustics

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.

  Simon Newcomb

  Reading, Aunt, Years

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• [David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the emotion behind those images that's meant the most to me over the years. It's the way David Lean can put feeling on film. The way he shows a whole landscape of the spirit. For me, that's the real geography of David Lean country. And that's why, in a David Lean movie, there's no such thing as an empty landscape.

  Martin Scorsese

  Photography, Country, Real

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• Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.

  Mary Cantwell

  Happiness, Silence, Landscape

  Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reading, Matter, Details

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

  Michael Scott

  Writing, Hardest, Reader

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• As an actress, you're living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I've always seen writing the same way. It's like somehow I'm moving through the terrain of the book as a performer.

  Hank Azaria

  Moving, Book, Writing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  California, Romance, Gold

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• I was excellent at English and Drama. Maths and Science I was terrible at. I didn't have any interest in them. I was happiest at lunchtime, playing with my friends. But I love science now, that's the funny thing. And I'd be so good at geography, as I've been fortunate enough to travel the world.

  Peter Andre

  Drama, Math, Funny Things

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Flotsam, Stage

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It started partly as a sectarian war in some areas, but now it's not, because when you talk about sectarian war or religious war, you should have a very clear line between the sects and religions in Syria according to the geography and the demography in Syria, something we don't have.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Religious, War, Should Have

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• The world's geography is not realistic. Geography is not real. Borders are only closed to people but they are open to products. There is another type of geography outside of this matrix. Because of this we noticed we were talking about much more than just Latin America. That was very important to put the film on another level. Based on this idea, we knew that we were not in this world any longer.

  Alex Abreu

  Latin, Real, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don’t want to make an incremental change in some technology in my life. I want to create a whole new technology, and one that is aimed at helping humanity at all levels regardless of geography or ethnicity or age or gender.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Technology, Ethnicity, Humanity

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• As countries appear and disappear, then I began to ask, what makes countries successful? And it turns out, after a long slog through geographies and ethnicities and all kinds of variables, it's the ability to adapt and adopt, what Darwin talked about.

  Juan Enriquez

  Country, Successful, Ethnicity

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's now up to the states to figure out how they implement that definition of a well-rounded education, in other words, where they spend federal funds. The new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, has suggestions like computer science, health, foreign language and geography. So there's no guarantee the arts will now flourish. Arts advocates are ready to help states and school districts with their plans.

  Elizabeth Blair Lee

  Art, School, Law

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I know that the United Kingdom is sometimes seen as an argumentative and rather strong-minded member of the family of European nations. And it's true that our geography has shaped our psychology. We have the character of an island nation - independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty.

  David Cameron

  Strong, Character, Independent

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on Britain's membership of the EU, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

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• It doesn't matter if a character is a lawyer, a cop or a geography teacher. If there's a story in there, where the character has a passion and a fire in his belly and story to tell, then it's enough for an actor to get excited about.

  Clive Standen

  Teacher, Passion, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• [When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Knives, Play

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• We have sacrificed and we have endured extreme hardship, but we have maintained the key goal - we have denied the enemy its main objective of creating two political geographies in this country through the all-out war which has been unleashed against us. If we had a first-rate air force, the nature of the conflict would be completely different.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, War, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

  Martha Ronk

  Mean, Garden, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure into songs, and Iowa. "February" is very much about New England. "Mortal City" is Philadelphia. The whole album is this anthropomorphized landscape where the metaphors live in this geography.

  Dar Williams

  Song, New York, Ocean

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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