Map Quotes

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. (Steven Wright)
I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available. View quote
Vanessa L. Williams
I want to hang a map of the world in my house, and then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map, so it won't fall down. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
What is it but a map of busy life,Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns. View quote
William Cowper
The map is not the territory ... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map... View quote
Alfred Korzybski
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. View quote
Muhammad Ali
I have presented the periodic table as a kind of travel guide to an imaginary country, of which the elements are the various regions. This kingdom has a geography: the elements lie in particular juxtaposition to one another, and they are used to produce goods, much as a prairie produces wheat and a lake produces fish. It also has a history. Indeed, it has three kinds of history: the elements were discovered much as the lands of the world were discovered; the kingdom was mapped, just as the world was mapped, and the relative positions of the elements came to take on a great significance; and the elements have their own cosmic history, which can be traced back to the stars. View quote
Peter Atkins
It is not down in any map; true places never are. View quote
Herman Melville
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. View quote
Earl Nightingale
So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. (Michael Stipe)
My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things. View quote
Vince Gill
Richard [Carrier] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This is a position that is so extreme that to call it marginal would be an understatement; it doesn't even appear on the map of contemporary New Testament scholarship. View quote
William Lane Craig
Roll up that map; it will not be wanted these ten years. View quote
William Pitt the Younger
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South - barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! - stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room - encouraged by one in-law to visit another - little birdlike women without any nest - eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves? View quote
Tennessee Williams
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and their map, who lie Flat on this bed. View quote
John Donne
[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. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours: The desert of the real itself. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear. View quote
Philip Roth
I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race...If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible... View quote
Cecil Rhodes
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 Gaddafi)
It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar. View quote
Edward Said
As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It‘s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination. View quote
Scott Lynch
This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. View quote
Rita Mae Brown