Map Quotes

586 quotes by 493 authors

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float? — Nick Flynn
If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be… — Miranda July
It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies… — Edward Said
. . . All artistsâ€™ work is autobiographical. Any writerâ€™s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are,… — Kim Addonizio
Q: Whatâ€™s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination… — Tom Waits
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary. — Craig Thompson
It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are,… — Gordon B. Hinckley
It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks. — Wendy Mass
Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side… — John O'Donohue
â€¦Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the… — Michael Ondaatje
I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I… — Steven Wright
I believe in such cartography â€“ to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and… — Michael Ondaatje
And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things… — Norton Juster
A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and… — Rebecca Solnit
From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny.… — Joyce Carol Oates
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise… — Margaret Atwood
Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from… — Rebecca Solnit
Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it… — Deb Caletti

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