Maps Quotes

625 quotes by 508 authors

Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on… — Bob Dylan
It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks. — Wendy Mass
Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles. — Roseanne Barr
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
You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this,… — Lorrie Moore
All I ever wanted was a world without maps. — Michael Ondaatje
The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein. — Jose Saramago
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
Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps… — James M. Barrie
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
I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The… — Kate Braverman
I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt,… — May Sarton

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508 authors contributed a total of 625 Maps Quotes, led by these top contributors: