Top 185 Map Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Map Quotes from famous people such as Hidetaka Miyazaki, Darell Hammond, Anatoly Karpov, Mitch McConnell, Jake Tapper, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

From the initial design stages of 'Sekiro: Shadows Die

From the initial design stages of ‘Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice,’ we had the idea of the player being able to move dynamically through a detailed, multi-layered map. We found that a ‘shinobi’ type character was the key to achieving this in a way that was both realistic and cool.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
At KaBOOM! we are crowd-sourcing a nationwide Map of Play that uses GIS data and user rankings to identify where the engaging playgrounds are located, but more importantly, where they are not.
Darell Hammond
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world’s map, to make it part of the world’s geography again.
Anatoly Karpov
Don’t fall in love with the map. The map doesn’t win elections.
Mitch McConnell
Probably like a lot of people, my personal politics are all over the map.
Jake Tapper
Now I know that if I surf without expectations and have a map for making my passion my life’s plan, I’m always in the present and smiling.
Garrett McNamara
Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can’t let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer’s room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.
Eric Kripke
If we can map the retina, that will help us understand how it functions in vision, as well as devise new ways of repairing its malfunctions. And if we can really figure out the retina, perhaps we will have a shot at figuring out the vastly more complicated brain.
Sebastian Seung
I never map things out in advance. It would be better if I did and more economical in terms of time, but I’ve found that if you work out a plot line from beginning to end, at the beginning it becomes very rational.
Steven Knight
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
If you have no road map, you have to create your own.
Jacqueline Woodson
Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.
Brian Sutton-Smith
True navigation begins in the human heart. It’s the most important map of all.
Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey
Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I’ve certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you – and some of those places are kind of wonderful.
Alan Ball
When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family to England!
Neil Sedaka
‘TV Guide’ is smart to aim toward women. More women will go there to find out what’s on – just like when guys won’t ask for directions, a woman will break out the map.
Kate Flannery
I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.
Kevin O’Leary
Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, ‘These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,’ they will do all eight very earnestly.
Dana Perino
I’ve always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
Idris Elba
I have put gay dating on the map.
Patti Stanger
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali
Melbourne is where the Crown story started. It’s a testament to the vision and work of Lloyd Williams and Jeff Kennett – our resort helped transform Melbourne and put the city on the map for international tourists.
James Packer
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville
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
Fifty million Americans have dementia and other brain illnesses. To gather together the minds that exist and see how we can tackle these ailments together, that is the work that is in front of us: to have a map of the human brain, an understanding of the roadways, and an understanding of the traffic on the roadways.
Chaka Fattah
The federal government shouldn’t be drawing lines on a map in terms of what transit infrastructure are needed; we should be there to be a partner with the cities, with the provinces, that need that.
Justin Trudeau
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Pablo Picasso
We’ve been very lucky with the ‘Being the Elite’ crew that everyone is very passionate about pro wrestling. There’s no crooks in the group. Everyone’s ideas are valued. And everyone who has something they pick and put on the map, they are fully going to commit to that.
Cody Rhodes
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
There’s no road map. There’s no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open – or if it ever will.
Taya Kyle
2011 was a year in which events rarely turned out as predicted, and when much of the world seemed shrouded in turmoil and uncertainty. It was difficult for government analysts back in Washington to know just where they were on the map, let alone where they were heading.
David Ignatius
Growing up, everyone dreams of certain things, and they

Growing up, everyone dreams of certain things, and they map out a direction that their life would take. Working with A. R. Rahman sir is one of my dreams, if not the biggest dream, realised.
Sid Sriram
I prefer playing in songs where I have a tempo, groove and harmonic map to hang on to.
Paul Gilbert
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
We’ve got to map all of our ancient history before it’s gone because, let’s face it, if we don’t have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?
Sarah Parcak
Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it’s much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that’s just the map of the journey.
Paul Greengrass
Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking – plenty of it.
Joseph Monninger
I’m one of those few actresses who works all the time, and even though I haven’t done a show that literally puts me on some kind of map – as in, that’s how I’m known and that’s how I’ll always be known – I’m very lucky.
Rena Sofer
I don’t believe that the world is that crazy that they have nothing to better to do with their time than send me emails and tell me these outlandish stories. So I’ve started to plot the communities that have come to me on a map.
Erin Brockovich
Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the U.S.-Mexico border with a Google map. There are words, and there are actions – but there is mostly that long squiggly line in between.
Nina Easton
The map we made of the 3,000-year-old city of Tanis requires no imagination. It has buildings, streets, admin complexes, houses – clear as day.
Sarah Parcak
This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.
Francis Crick
President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let’s have a ball. I’ll blow up the balloons myself.
Paula Poundstone
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
E. O. Wilson
With ‘Hannibal,’ it’s like reactive scoring so I don’t get ahead. I don’t read a script; I don’t want to know what’s going to happen until its happening in front of me and I’m able to have an instrument in my hands that I’m playing to make some kind of a map, some sort of tonal map, that I can then build on.
Brian Reitzell
‘Fix’ was a song that definitely put me on the map and changed everything for in me my career. I’m really thankful for it.
Chris Lane
My hair’s been every color. My hair’s been all over the map.
Katie Cassidy
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn’t even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
Thor Heyerdahl
I always find my emotions all over the map, not so much a single thing overriding the rest.
Aesop Rock
I consciously did not want to put a sub-Mr. Bungle band on the map. I don’t think the world needs that.
Mike Patton
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
By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes: a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.
David McCandless
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale
I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
Gary Shteyngart
I can be a bit nerdy so I need a good, clearly marked map, as you can miss out on some of the coolest places in Amsterdam if you don’t have a wander down the little side streets.
Gregory Porter
I think, in anyone’s career, you have to map out some sort of strategy of steps that take you closer to the career you want.
Erin Foster