Maps Quotes

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

Change, Poverty, Nations

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Women, American, Relief

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Les Brown

Life, Show, Road

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Christopher Columbus

Execution, Voyage, Indies

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Change, Women, Truth

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 grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
Charlize Theron

Travel, Whole, Reading

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

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.
Stanislav Grof

Actually, Culture, Seem

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
Alfred Korzybski

Alone, Words, Between

There's just something hypnotic about maps.
Ken Jennings

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.
Ken Jennings

Hours, Stare, Delaware

I have always loved maps.
Ken Jennings

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.
Ken Jennings

Brain, Understand, Before

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.
Lennart Meri

Geography, Prose

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.
Robert Ballard

Legal, Country, Whatever

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.
Andrew Bird

Kid, Hours, Places

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
Alfred Korzybski

Important, Two, Structure

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.
Ken Jennings

Child, State, Started

We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps.
Nelson DeMille

Same, Road, Journey

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.
Bob Black

Life, Daily, Off

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.
Julianna Baggott

Truth, Art, Confidence

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
Eric Bentley

Geography, Biography, Chaps

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.
Lisa See

Put, Able, Books

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
Charles C. Mann

Two, Small, Large

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

Mind, Writing, Two

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

Different, Country, Seeing

There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.
Jason Gann

Work, Real, Write

There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.
Mark Consuelos

Family, Great, Important

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Art, Different, Geography

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