#maps

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. ↗

— Edmund Clerihew Bentley

#art #biography #chaps #different #geography

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#child #crocodiles #first #florida #jigsaw

I have always loved maps. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#i #loved #maps

There's just something hypnotic about maps. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#hypnotic #just #maps #something

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#becomes #detailed #elephant #films #interpretive

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. ↗

— Lisa See

#because #books #certain #footnotes #i

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#africa #always #attracted #bottom #grew

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. ↗

— Les Brown

#guide #life #maps #possible #road

There are maps through your bones and skin, to the way you've felt and the way you've been. ↗

— Christopher Poindexter

#maps #past #remember #life

You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#maps #humor