Map Quotes

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali

Change, Poverty, Nations

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
Steven Wright

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Pablo Picasso

Might, Line, Along

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.
Saint Augustine

Great, Heart, Feeling

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
William S. Burroughs

Writing, Acting, Point

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale

Courage, Road, Plan

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.
Anne Grant

Confusion, Sense, Hopeless

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

Evening, Eyes, Try

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
E. O. Wilson

Brain, Often, Constant

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
Jon Bon Jovi

Future, Long, Worth

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.
Camille Paglia

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.
Suze Orman

Impossible, Starting, Route

There's no map to human behaviour.
Bjork

Human, Behaviour

It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville

True, Down, Places

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
Ben Stein

Done, Somewhere

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
Thor Heyerdahl

Nature, Good, Live

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
Meryl Streep

Family, Road, Enormous

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Work, Art

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
Mary Schmich

Life, Movies, Through

I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
Bryan Adams

Forget, Remember, Said

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.
Christian Bale

Life, Change, Family

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.
Bob Woodward

Deep, Through, Road

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.
Chris Christie

End, Political, Different

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
Larry Wall

Hard, Old, Hackers

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.
Gus Van Sant

Others, Problems, Road

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, Path, Story

In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it.
Julie Burchill

Husband, Nothing, Thought

I have put gay dating on the map.
Patti Stanger

Dating, Gay, Put

Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.
Dave Grohl

End, Last, Song

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
Idris Elba

Successful, Put, Acting

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