Maps Quotes - Page 27

• You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.

  Terry Pratchett

  Space, Dragons, Trying

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• Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

  Stephen King

  Book, Land, Giving

  Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Silly, Lines, Grind

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.17, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Reif Larsen

  Long, Married, Truth And Beauty

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• When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dog, Heart, Eye

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• Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go.

  Joey Comeau

  Cities, Drunk, Wicked

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• Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.

  Hugo Hamilton

  Life, Dream, Country

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• 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.

  Herman Melville

  Islands, West, Far Away

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.57

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• Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Nuts, Mutual Interest

  Dave Barry (2007). “Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)”, p.98, Penguin

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• My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

  Jude Deveraux

  Art, Book, Play

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• I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library—subway maps, bus maps, and regular maps—and try to memorize them. I’m afraid of getting lost; no, I’m afraid of sinking into the city as in a quicksand, afraid of getting sucked into something I can never escape.

  Deborah Feldman

  Cities, Trying, Library

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• Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Worry, Tough

  "Hemingway and Dietrich letters". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 3, 2007.

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• I have learned that the stuff that causes me anxiety, the stuff I instinctively veer away from, is usually a road map to where my own creative growth can be found. So I consciously head toward the places that make me uncomfortable.

  Merrill Markoe

  Anxiety, Creative, Growth

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• [In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Space, Discovery, Age

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “The Lying Stones of Marrakech”, p.318, Harvard University Press

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• Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Mean, Night, Bunk

  Arthur Guiterman, “The Traveler”

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• Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day.

  Norman Doidge

  Exercise, Use It Or Lose It, Long

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.108, Penguin

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• We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].

  Norman Doidge

  Lasting Change, Brain, Attention

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• Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  School, Years, Brain

  "Rebelling Within Nature". lesswrong.com. July 13, 2008.

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• Sometimes having no script, having no idea what is going to happen next, having no map, might be the way to go. Because life just happens, and when it does, how you handle it will teach you more about who you are than any class or test ever can. The best preparation for the rest of your life is, maybe, no preparation at all. Dive right in. Make mistakes. Break a few rules. Wing it.

  Valerie Thomas

  Mistake, Class, Wings

  Valerie Thomas, Stacy Kramer (2013). “From What I Remember”, p.267, Egmont UK

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• To the astrologer, or at least to what I call the analytical astrologer, the natal chart virtually represents a living map to the kingdom of heaven which lies within.

  Alice O. Howell

  Lying, Heaven, Kingdoms

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• Your strategy is the road map for bringing your goals to fruition... Ask yourself, 'What are the steps I need to take to achieve this goal?' Be careful not to overwhelm yourself by taking on too much at once.

  Lauren Mackler

  Goal, Needs, Fruition

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• An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Delicate Things, Guides, Opening

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• Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

  Bill Hybels

  Leader, Figures, Road Maps

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• Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map.

  Ed Stetzer

  Letting Go, Tables

  FaceBook post by Ed Stetzer from Oct 20, 2013

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• On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Change, Blue, Color

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.11, University of Missouri Press

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