Maps Quotes - Page 8

We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.

I carried recipes in my head like maps.

If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps. "I win.

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, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions.

Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.

Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

Art is the act of navigating without a map.

The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible.

Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s more, using a brilliant mixture of zen navigation, Aristotelian logic, and pure rage I can get you your package and/or delicious sandwich relatively close to on-time.

Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

It's just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use.

I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.

It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn’t be a pin for me.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.