Maps Quotes

625 quotes by 508 authors

Map out your future, but do it in pencil. — Jon Bon Jovi
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of… — Michael Ondaatje
The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way.… — Cormac McCarthy
When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the… — Rebecca Solnit
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book… — Stephen King
You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we… — Terry Pratchett
I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines. — Audre Lorde
What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? — Aldo Leopold
That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads… — C.S. Lewis
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
Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy. — C.S. Lewis
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
We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous… — Vladimir Nabokov
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
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence… — Eric Weiner
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

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