Maps Quotes - Page 30

• The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Way, Firsts, Invisible

  Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Annihilation: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Stars, Grace, Best Laid Plans

  Song: Your Life Story, Album: The Calling

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• I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

  Brian Setzer

  Guitar, Hook, Use

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• Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, Intellectual

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• A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that.The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

  Matt Haig

  Confused, Book, Reading

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• 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.

  Nick Harkaway

  Space, People, Want

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

  Ben Parr

  Phones, Data, Two

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• The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Loyalty, Country, Past

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• The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, London, Uncharted

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Color

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• Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Journey, Suffering, Hunger And Thirst

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.56

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• In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Profound, Byzantine

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• The body is the vehicle, consciousness the driver. Yoga is the path, and the chakras are the map.

  Anodea Judith

  Yoga, Body, Path

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• I sit at my desk
  each night with no place to go,
  opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo,
  the whole U.S.,
  its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones,
  through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.

  Anne Sexton

  Night, Time Zones, Veins

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice... No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.

  Wilfred Thesiger

  Writing, Heart, Sacrifice

  Wilfred Thesiger (2008). “Arabian Sands”, p.236, Penguin

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• A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented.

  Peter Doig

  Photography, Reality, Feet

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• Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

  Loren Eiseley

  Drawing, Usual, Tasks

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.165, Library of America

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

  Simon Van Booy

  Love Is, Land, Language

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.50, Oneworld Publications

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• Americans are good people. They have no aggressions against us and they like us as we like them. They must know I don't hate them. I love them.... I hear it is a complex society inside. Many Americans don't know about the outside world. The majority have no concern and no information about other people. They could not even find Africa on a map. I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Hate, Taken, Thinking

  "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate". The Pittsburgh Press, August 3, 1986.

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• When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge map of Britain hung upside down in his office, so the channel was at the top and Scotland was at the bottom and, apparently, he said, "This is how we need to look at this country, with the money and the power draining by force of gravity out of the south east." That was a great idea. I rather liked him for that. I don't know if it's actually true or not.

  Neal Ascherson

  Country, Thinking, Scotland

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• The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.

  Shimon Peres

  Iran, President, Remember

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.

  Ali Khamenei

  Islamic, Israel, Iran

  "The Iranian Regime on Israel's Right to Exist". www.theatlantic.com. March 09, 2015.

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• It's very sad that Tanzania is a poor football country. If elected, I promise to put this country on the world football map. I will make sure we produce our own Okochas, El Hadji Dioufs and Zinedine Zidanes here.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Football, Country, Zidane

  "A Political Football". news.bbc.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen ready to blow your head off as you run for a train. When the city of distorting mirrors revealed itself, through its districts and discriminations, I discovered more about London's past as a reworking of my own submerged history.

  Iain Sinclair

  Running, Book, Eye

  Iain Sinclair (2007). “London: City of Disappearances”, Penguin Global

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• I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.

  Kathleen Raine

  Writing, Apology, Sky

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.6, SteinerBooks

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