Maps Quotes - Page 29

• White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

  Peggy McIntosh

  White Privilege, Clothes, Special

  "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" by Peggy McIntosh, first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), pp. 10-12, July/August 1989; later quoted in Thomas Norman DeWolf "Inheriting the Trade" (Chapter 4: The Great Folks), www.pbs.org. January 2, 2008.

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• The map appears to us more real than the land.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Reality, Land

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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• It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of one's friends; but it is doubly hard for an aviator to stay on the ground waiting for just the right moment to go into the air.

  Glenn Curtiss

  Air, Waiting, Desire

  Glenn H. Curtiss (1912). “The Curtiss Aviation Book”

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• Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to draw closer? Roads run all around them, flowers grow between you and your objective, what seemed so clear on the map is tough in real life. So try all the paths and all the tracks until eventually one day you're standing in front of the top that you yearn to reach.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Running

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• You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Philosophical, Wish, Levels

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• The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

  Adrienne Rich

  Damage, Purpose, Done

  "Diving into the Wreck" l. 51 (1973)

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• I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

  Brian Setzer

  Guitar, Hook, Use

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• Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Stars, Grace, Best Laid Plans

  Song: Your Life Story, Album: The Calling

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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?

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Way, Firsts, Invisible

  Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Annihilation: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.

  Lesley Howarth

  Two, Way, Easier

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• I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

  Richard Davidson

  Compassion, Committed

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• Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

  Marina Warner

  Mother, Men, Helping

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• Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet.

  Kelly Link

  Feet, Sometimes

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.114, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The key is to just get on the bike, and the key to getting on the bike… is to stop thinking about ‘there are a bunch of reasons I might fall off’ and just hop on and peddle the damned thing. You can pick up a map, a tire pump, and better footwear along the way.

  Dick Costolo

  Fall, Thinking, Keys

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• Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Glasses, Broken, Paper

  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

  Alice Hoffman

  Real, Hair, Blood

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Skylight Confessions”, Center Point Pub

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• Americans are good people. They have no aggressions against us and they like us as we like them. They must know I don't hate them. I love them.... I hear it is a complex society inside. Many Americans don't know about the outside world. The majority have no concern and no information about other people. They could not even find Africa on a map. I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Hate, Taken, Thinking

  "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate". The Pittsburgh Press, August 3, 1986.

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• Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.

  Julian Barnes

  Fall, Boys, Yield

  "Talking It Over". Book by Julian Barnes, books.google.ru. February 23, 2010.

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• Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

  Simon Van Booy

  Love Is, Land, Language

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.50, Oneworld Publications

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• Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

  Loren Eiseley

  Drawing, Usual, Tasks

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.165, Library of America

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• Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

  Ben Parr

  Phones, Data, Two

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• A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. There is not a problem in existence that has not been eased, somewhere and at some time, by a book. I want you to remember that.The answers have all been written. And the more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

  Matt Haig

  Confused, Book, Reading

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• The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Loyalty, Country, Past

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• Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Color

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• In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Profound, Byzantine

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