#geography

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #humour #humor

All I ever wanted was a world without maps. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#english

God created war so that Americans would learn geography. ↗

— Mark Twain

#geography #war #learn

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography. ↗

— Lee Child

#claustrophobic #crime #geography #internal #limited

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#fourth #geography #grade #i #intensely

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing. ↗

— David Maraniss

#capture #cultural #doing #explain #focus

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#believes #flunked #geography #heart #his

Bhutan does seem a bit unreal at times. Hardly anybody in the U.S. knows where it is. I have friends who still think the entire country is a figment of my imagination. When I was getting ready to move there, and I told people I was going to work in Bhutan, they'd inevitably ask, "Where's Butane?" It is near Africa," I'd answer, to throw them off the trail. "It's where all the disposable lighters come from." They'd nod in understanding. ↗

— Linda Leaming

#geography #humor #ignorance #humor

The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#city-life #london #urban-geography #imagination

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. ↗

— Eric Bentley

#biography #chaps #geography #maps