Maps Quote by Catherynne M. Valente Download Open image “That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.” — Catherynne M. Valente ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Maps Memories Memory
Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. — Max Fisher Copy Share Image
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map... — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps.… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The cicada lies in the earth for seventeen years. It is warm and dark there, it is soft and wet. Its little legs curl… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“September put her hand on the grip of the Rivet Gun. She’d only just gotten it, and she’d promised to take copious notes for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You see, the future is a kind of stew, a soup, a vichyssoise of the present and the past. That's how you get the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps for him… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
When Apple introduced its game-changing iPhone in 2007, Nokia was caught sleeping on the job. Although it had actually developed an iPhone-style device -… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to… — Paul Burrell Copy Share Image
Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once. — Lesley Howarth Copy Share Image
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The script is your map of the world, isn't it? And if someone knows that if it's well-written, you get all of the beats,… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
