Maps Quotes - Page 21

• Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall, taking out the garbage, tipping, fishing, being funny (on purpose), reading a map, listening to good bands, writing, running the country, inventing anything important, or being fun to hang out with.

  Daniel Tosh

  Country, Running, Fun

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• In trying to express only those aspects of ourselves that we believe will guarantee us the acceptance of others, we suppress some of our most valuable and interesting features and sentence ourselves to a life of reenacting the same outworn scripts. Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential. Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that—when properly read and followed—reconnects us to the life we were meant to live and the people we were meant to be.

  Debbie Ford

  Believe, Acceptance, People

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

  Tonya Harding

  Skating, Made, Livelihood

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• I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.

  Don Cheadle

  Thinking, Looks, Kind

  The Tavis Smiley show, www.pbs.org. February 21, 2012.

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• I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

  Deborah Levy

  Moving, Past, Cities

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• Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

  John Tuzo Wilson

  Lying, Science, Order

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• Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone directories, maps and photographs for criminal purposes, corrections officials and prison security experts say. Gang violence and drug trafficking, they say, are increasingly being orchestrated online, allowing inmates to keep up criminal behavior even as they serve time.

  Kim Severson

  Phones, Internet Access, Games

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• Sir, The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the Royal Academy of Berlin. The observation of the succeeding day showed it to be the Planet of which we were in quest.

  Johann Gottfried Galle

  Stars, Science, Twenties

  "The Cambridge Planetary Handbook". Book by Michael E. Bakich, 2000.

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• A new era has dawned in Ontario; one where the air will be cleaner and the multiple costs of coal-fired generation have become a distant memory. Atikokan's successful conversion to biomass will put Ontario on the world map as a leader in using this sustainable fuel source for electricity production.

  Bob Chiarelli

  Memories, Successful, Air

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• [Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  Broken, Listening, Hook

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• 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.

  Anne Sexton

  Mind, Kind, My Own

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heartbreak, Hope, Lost Love

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• 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!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Crazy, Clothes, Needs

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• 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.

  Alice Hoffman

  Men, Waiting

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

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Memories, Knows

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.169, Macmillan

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• All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were told before us and that we have come of age loving--amateurs--we proceed, seeking out the blank places in the map that our favorite writers, in their greatness and negligence, have left for us, hoping to pass on to our own readers--should we be lucky enough to find any--some of the pleasure that we ourselves have taken in the stuff that we love: to get in on the game. All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

  Michael Chabon

  Taken, Greatness, Games

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• Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. And secondly, if you want to get any further you must use the map.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Confused, Real

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.

  Chris Brogan

  Inspirational, Intention

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• Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

  Alan Moore

  Reality, Thinking, Ideas

  "What Is Reality?". Proposed text for "Holy Smoke" by Alan Moore, 1999.

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• I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Iowa, San Francisco

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.71, Penguin

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• Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.

  William Shakespeare

  Faces, Cheeks

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6655, Delphi Classics

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• To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Decide Upon, Soldier

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• If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind. See the desination. Imagine your arrival. Dream in perfect detail. See yourself the way you want to be when you arrive. See yourself arriving. Make yourself a road map and study it every day until you know the way and the destination by heart.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Dream, Heart, Ambition

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• We were just looking at maps.

  Rick Riordan

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, May 6, 2008.

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

  Gerald Durrell

  Add, Study

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