Geography Quotes · Page 14

Gentlemen, we may not make history tomorrow but we will certainly change the geography.

— General Sir Herbert Plumer

I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if…

— Haruki Murakami

In many parts of our country, geography and population density can make it difficult to attract private investment. These communities depend on…

— Amy Klobuchar

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected…

— Virginia Woolf

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is…

— Anonymous

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They…

— Tim Scott

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

— Christopher Moore

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see…

— Margaret Atwood

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

— Yves Tanguy

Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if…

— Jack Dangermond

I've always been fascinated with marine geography and how deep things are. I was spellbound by the tsunami, for example, by the…

— Joan Didion

Today's enterprise IT architecture is about integrating systems to meet business needs. Consequently, IT architects can't - and don't - live in…

— Jamie Lewis

[David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the…

— Martin Scorsese

I like geography. I think I know every country in the world. If someone from another country plays for my team, I…

— Vlade Divac

Because of differences in geography, density, socio-economic patterns, each of our states are very different. A one-size-fits-all federal approach won't work. Our…

— Doug Burgum

Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure…

— Dar Williams

It's very important to have the comfort of the regulator in every geography where you operate.

— Chanda Kochhar

Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead…

— Thrity Umrigar

The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don`t know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign…

— Bill Maher

So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited…

— Augusten Burroughs

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography…

— Chiang Kai-shek

The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of…

— Frederick Gowland Hopkins

There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.

— Frank O'Hara

In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic…

— Susan Howe