Map Quotes - page 3

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. (Sigmund Freud)
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map. View quote
Larry Wall
Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? View quote
Aldo Leopold
I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books.... All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine. View quote
Ned Vizzini
It's a map of a non-existent coast under an imaginary constellation on an impossible sky in-” he grunted, twisting something-"the middle of a ring of meaningless numbers. That's why it's powerful. That's why it's magic. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
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! View quote
Sophie Kinsella
It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from. View quote
Suze Orman
Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life. View quote
Philippa Perry
You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems. View quote
Helen Fisher
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic. (Charles Frazier)
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. View quote
James Patterson
In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South. View quote
Jean Webster
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? View quote
Jude Watson
It's just that I'm the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn't be a pin for me. View quote
Elizabeth Strout
I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism. View quote
Cory Booker
A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future. View quote
Alexa Von Tobel
Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project. View quote
Anne Grant
Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start. View quote
Bobby Darin
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)
I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. View quote
Ben Casnocha
The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time. View quote
David M. Brown
By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes: a sort of information map. And when you're lost in information, an information map is kind of useful. View quote
David Mccandless
I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script. View quote
Dougray Scott