Topography Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Try for a record of emotion, rather than a piece of topography. — Frederick H. Evans
Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and… — Mike Seabrook
Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to… — R. A. Lafferty
In battle, topography is fate. — Rick Atkinson
The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess. — Alexander Kotov
Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto. — Tony Snow
Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, drenching… — David Abram
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the fear… — John Betjeman
But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography. — Michael Polanyi
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. — Michael Polanyi
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots,… — Charles Lamb
I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go… — Alan Moore
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. — Jerry Saltz
Science is the topography of ignorance. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure. — Bill Watterson
This is what you do now to give your day topography--scan the boxes, read the news, see the chain of your friends reporting about themselves,… — David Levithan
Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create… — Jaquelin T. Robertson
The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure -… — Martin Filler
Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a… — George Phillips Bond

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