#geography

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives. ↗

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#wisdom #anger

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. ↗

— Paul Rodriguez

#god #i #i think #sometimes #teaching

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #humor

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

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #humour #humor

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#geography #literary-london #london #metropolis #similes

The Ridyadh Bodkin and the Kuala Lumpur Mushroom are positive Meccas for all kinds of daredevils-of this much I'm sure. Decadent Saudi princes pilot microlights through huge holes in their facades, while Malaysian spider men scale them using giant suckers in lieu of crampons. All these activities serve to demonstrate is that modernist megaliths have completely suborned the role of natural features in providing us with the essential and vertiginous perspective we require to comprehend accurately our ant-like status. ↗

— Will Self

#men

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

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#another #busily #day #dictation #geography