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Map Quotes

To stay on the map you’ve got to keep showing up.

– Peter Gallagher

The minute there’s a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

– Seth Godin

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

– Paul Goldberger

‘The Names’ is planned as a nine-part series. I have a kind of road map: I know the final scene of episode nine. But as to exactly how we get there, what detours or horrible accidents we might have to pass through, I like to keep that a little fluid.

– Peter Milligan

I just think that it’s very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.

– Shakira

As you make your way along life’s tumultuous highways, it’s important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

– Octavia Spencer

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it’s much bigger when you’re there.

– Robert D. Kaplan

‘Harat’ is actually – it’s a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from ‘the mapmaker,’ somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.

– Rabih Alameddine

The strongest signals leaking off our planet are radar transmissions, not television or radio. The most powerful radars, such as the one mounted on the Arecibo telescope (used to study the ionosphere and map asteroids) could be detected with a similarly sized antenna at a distance of nearly 1,000 light-years.

– Seth Shostak

I predict that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. The only way to map them and locate them quickly is from satellites.

– Sarah Parcak

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don’t know where I am.

– Tamora Pierce

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

– Steve Cropper

You still can’t find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook.

– Suzanne Fields

‘Satellite archaeology’ refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features.

– Sarah Parcak

We’re using satellites to help map and model cultural features that could never be seen on the ground because they’re obscured by modernization, forests, or soil.

– Sarah Parcak

Once you put something like ‘The A-Team’ on the map, it does become part of the DNA of television. People grab little pieces of it. I certainly grabbed little pieces of other people’s shows when I was creating my shows.

– Stephen J. Cannell

It’s impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don’t know where you’re starting from.

– Suze Orman

Satellite imagery is the only way we can map the looting patterns effectively.

– Sarah Parcak

I have an existential map. It has ‘You are here’ written all over it.

– Steven Wright

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

– William Labov

Iran is the only country in the world that’s threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

– Sigmar Gabriel

Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s.

– Sarah Parcak

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

– Werner Herzog

Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

– William Irwin Thompson

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