Maps Quotes
625 quotes by 508 authors
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Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.
— William Irwin Thompson
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On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.
— William Least Heat-Moon
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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that…
— Jonathan Raban
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I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1,…
— Joe Lhota
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Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.
— Kent McCord
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
— Tamora Pierce
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I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the…
— Will Patton
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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…
— Charlize Theron
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Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
— Charles C. Mann
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The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map,…
— Robert D. Kaplan
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The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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When all the words have been written, and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain. We may map…
— Kent Nerburn
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Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give…
— Victor Cousin
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You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.
— John Lennon
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Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
— Richard Ford
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I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a…
— John Steinbeck
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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…
— Bryan Adams
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Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.
— Karl E. Weick
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My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all…
— Vince Gill
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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
Who Wrote These Maps Quotes
508 authors contributed a total of 625 Maps Quotes, led by these top contributors: