Maps Quotes - Page 33

• There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan, [Tim] Walz, [Dave] Loebsack and Cheri Bustos. So that's five. And all the rest of them are in urban cities. That's a problem.

  Collin Peterson

  Cities, Looks, Urban

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

  Jeff Smith

  Problem, Bones, Bigger

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• You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.

  Gus Van Sant

  Fun, Track, Stories

  "Gus van Sant: the last king of the underground". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2011.

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• I mean, what if love isn't a yes-or-no question? It's not either you're in love or you're not. I mean, aren't there different levels? And maybe these things, like words and expectations and whatever, don't go on top of the love. Maybe it's like a map, and they all have their own place, and then when you see it from the sky - whoa.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Sky, Expectations

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• The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.

  Julia Ormond

  Rights, Source, Stores

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• Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.

  Mario Batali

  Eye, Land, Trying

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• What we definitely agree with Walter on is that filmmaking is teamwork. It's one of the only arts that is truly based in the work of a team. Anyway, Werner he told us a lot of practical things. How to hang a hammock. He'd circle a map and give us a notebook with directions to get to certain places that were out of the way. He told us to drink the river water and not use purifications tactics that only "New Age assholes" used. He said that if we saw piranhas, we should jump in and swim with them. We did all of this. We took his word as gospel.

  Sam Pressman

  Notebook, Teamwork, Art

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already absorbed the valuable precept that everything crumbled into itself eventually, and to cultivate a crankiness about this was just a waste of time.

  Reif Larsen

  Sunset, Sunrise, Twelve

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin

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• Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.

  Bill Bryson

  Mean, Looks, Maine

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• They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For although each man among them was discrete unto himself, conjoined they made a thing that had not been before and in that communal soul were wastes hardly reckonable more than those whited regions on old maps where monsters do live and where there is nothing other of the known world save conjectural winds.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Blood, Order

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.

  Rachel Caine

  Dad, Journey, Used

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• Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.

  Maryse Alberti

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "The Female Cinematographers of Neon Demon, Creed, and Dope Discuss Their Experiences in a Male-Dominated Field". Interview with Kevin Lincoln, www.vulture.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?

  Judy Blundell

  Mean, People, Needs

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• While the president is to nominate that individual [to Supreme Court], we in the Senate must provide our advice and consent. This function is not well-defined. The Constitution does not set down a road map. It does not require hearings. In fact, it does not even require questioning on your understanding of the Constitution nor the role of the Supreme Court.

  Mike DeWine

  Advice, Understanding, President

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

  Philip Pullman

  Adults, Way, Language

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• It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance and history, and to establish the cultural meaning of the book, part and whole.

  Oliver Harris

  Book, Ideas, Insane

  Source: bigother.com

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• The script is your map of the world, isn't it? And if someone knows that if it's well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.

  Gary Oldman

  Scripts, Needs, World

  "Interview: Gary Oldman And Morgan Freeman" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 9, 2005.

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• A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Knowing, Remembrance, Luck

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists.

  James Patterson

  Flirting, Together, Teeth

  James Patterson (2008). “Maximum Ride: The Final Warning”, p.149, Random House

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• Humans impart meaning and purpose to almost all aspects of life. This sense of meaning and purpose gives us a road map for how to live a good life. This guidance emerges spontaneously from the interactions of human beings living in societies and thinking together about how best to get along. It doesn't require a god or sacred text.

  Greg Graffin

  Good Life, Thinking, Giving

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• He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps. "I win.

  Ilona Andrews

  Winning, Way, Chairs

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.102, Penguin

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• Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

  Haruki Murakami

  Useless, Too Much, Way

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 13, 2015

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• She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.

  Cassandra Clare

  War, Cutting, Imperfection

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Example, Different

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• ...playing with the Barbie-size keyboard on my new phone. Phones are like toys now. They fit in your pocket, light up and vibrate like joy buzzers. Plus, you can get-I mean, "access"-the Internet and find anything you want. Music. Maps. Porn. Anything. If cell phones came with a cigarette dispenser, they'd be the greatest stupid invention ever.

  Richard Kadrey

  Stupid, Mean, Phones

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