Maps Quotations

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

I got introduced to Maps by my label, and I liked his sound. I had been living with the original version of 'Younger' for quite a long time when I heard the result of his remix, and I loved it. It actually made me find a new love for the track.

The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure.

To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up.

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.

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.

A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.

Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what were dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.

My hair's been every color. My hair's been all over the map.

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

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

Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

I have put gay dating on the map.

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps - this has always been part of its greater revenue model: the pennies per placement it gets for seeding the entire Google universe of search and services with ever more targeted advertising.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

We are proud to be able to offer such a wide variety of maps and guides for people to plan their visit, as well as souvenirs that hold memories of the enjoyable time they had.

We are pleased to partner with The Map Network on these innovative online and print maps for Super Bowl XL at Ford Field in Detroit. They are essential for attendees, media and staff planning for and navigating the event through the week, but they also offer an entertaining virtual tour for those wanting to see all the exciting activities in the city during the Super Bowl.

We are pleased to offer this enhanced map coverage for those who live, work, and travel in Eastern Europe. Through our relationship with NAVTEQ, we are able to offer consumers some of the most detailed and up-to-date maps available anywhere.

With all the maps on one DVD, it's a very simple process which takes seconds rather than fiddling about with multiple CD-ROMs which hold less data. And, while we provide a 256MB card out of the box, if you install a larger 1 GB memory card for example, you could have maps for four or five countries on your phone.

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.

That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Why are old maps always burnt?

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.

The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

We'll be going back out probably late this year year and starting the whole process again of rebuilding the maps and getting advertisers." ()

I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that.

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

Life is a journey I don't have a map for

People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

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.

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

Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.

Believe the terrain, not the map

We did not aim to survey or list individual sites but to provide estimates based on available information, such as old Ordnance Survey maps and local authority land records. The information should assist in considering the progress being made in tackling land contamination, and in the development of policy and strategies at a local, regional and national level.

For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.

We're able to sense how a crop grows within a field, much like a yield monitor will make a map based on yield. We can create different variable application maps to control different rates of fertilizers and chemicals that are put on the field automatically through a GPS receiver.

The outcome we're after is Pennsylvania mining families know that when their loved ones go into this tough, dangerous business that at least their maps are dependable,

It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar.

We have a series of maps for the board to pour over that take you through the process we went through for the design.

Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend. Sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend

We've taken a page from our friends in the maps teams and borrowed a bit from the desktop team.

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.

Last year, we were criticized for the simplicity of the maps. This is the sort of quality with maps that we demanded when I was with Rand McNally.

Since the first day we had our meeting, the very first question and observation has been that the maps we have now are not right.

Of all the films I've worked on, that is among my favorites. It's an incredibly beautiful film. (Levinson) really captures what it means to be in a family and the ups and downs of that. He maps out beautifully how families moved from Eastern Europe to the United States and how they got broken up by the modern age.

No one in the Pakistan government has made such a request that such maps be removed.

One thing we put on our maps was population in the next ten years. Half of us said there would be a 10-15 percent increase, to about 28,500. The rest of the group said it would be more in the 30,000 to 35,000 range.

New Orleans seemed like a superior place to have this conversation because I'd seen maps showing how the city would no longer be there if we lose our polar ice caps. Little did I envision that the clarity of the issue would hit home in this way.

People want to come here, get out their maps and such and figure out where they want to go on tour.

If they're going to give out maps, we're going to use those maps to report that activity to the proper authorities.

I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns.

I have maps and lots of pictures, ... of what was there. So I frequently conduct tours. There's a lot to see if you know where to look.

Future enhancements include regional maps and salon rankings. There is nothing in the DC area that provides the same free service.