“Beijing maps featured cloverleaf exchanges that could have been designed by M. C. Escher.” — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries. — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“how much a person was defined by geography, and how much by upbringing, education, profession, faith and choice of friends. ‘How much… — James Runcie Copy Share Image
The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious” — Paul R. Niven Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four."… — Ruth Park Copy Share Image
We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed… — Robert Harbison Copy Share Image
Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The California fever is not likely to take us off… There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
After university, I was desperate to be an ambassador. It went back to geography: I loved the idea of living in exotic… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with a bank being big. In fact, there are some good arguments about universality of… — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
By accident of geography, the world's major oil resources are in Shi'ite-dominated areas. Iran's oil is concentrated right near the gulf, which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Geography is like history. History is the story of mankind since we first started to record it. The story and the understanding… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
A lot has changed in India in the last decade. We can attribute the growth of India's startup ecosystem to the increased… — Bhavin Turakhia Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Many cases of twentieth-century American map geekdom, it seems, began the same way that many twentieth-century Americans began: conceived in the backseats… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
“the compass wrong, as always!" "I didn't read the compass wrong! Commander Tchernov said we mustn't trust the map!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Israel necessarily has a thinner margin of security than the United States, given differences in size, geography and military capabilities. — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967. — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask… — Max Fisher Copy Share Image
“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Geography can be a major restriction for people to not be able to showcase their talent. — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
“Love was the map, and I would have to draw it myself; I would be the most repentant cartographer, verve and passion… — Mary O'Connell Copy Share Image
Look Alice. Let's get lost in your wonder-er-land fuck an atlas. You're perfectly perfect for me, what the fuck is this, practice? — Tyler The Creator Copy Share Image
I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable! — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
“A map is but a representation. It does not display. Therefore, create your map, and let it represent you!” — James Choitz Copy Share Image
“The geography of the thing wasn’t the point; it didn’t matter where they were: there was still too much space between them.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
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