224 Quotes About Maps
- Author J. R. R. Tolkien
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I wisely started with a map.
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- Author Joe Trohman
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I've been touring a lot, and I don't always know how to get around. Google Maps on the iPhone is pretty helpful with that.
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- Author William Irwin Thompson
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Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.
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- Author Cynthia Voigt
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...When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle."Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.
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- Author Jeff VanderMeer
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The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?
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- Author Ned Vizzini
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A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
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- Author David Foster Wallace
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Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses - places where statements that seem to obey all the language's rules are nevertheless impossible to deal with.
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- Author E. O. Wilson
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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- Author Edward Witten
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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.
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