"I would read the atlas for pleasure. I……" — Ken Jennings
"I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird."
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33 Quotes by Ken Jennings
Ken Jennings has 33 quotes on this site.
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You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch…
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There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to…
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Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever…
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Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.
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Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core…
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As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night,…
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For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.
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I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
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Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer
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There’s just something hypnotic about maps.
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The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing...
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Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.
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More Atlas Quotes
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He aint in your world you can take em off your atlas
— Drake
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
— Evelyn Waugh
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I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these…
— Andrzej Stasiuk
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Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato…
— Ray Bradbury
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I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
— Clarence Thomas
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Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
— Nancy Mairs
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An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift…
— Murray Rothbard
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On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to…
— Dervla Murphy
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On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to…
— Dervla Murphy
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There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One…
— Raj Patel
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The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan...
— Rosita Forbes
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