Emily Berrington Quotes

If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame.

In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.

I get lost a lot.

I use maps in my phone a great deal because I can't tell left from right. Having easy access to maps has given me a completely different life. When I first moved to London, I couldn't get anywhere and spent so much money on cabs because I couldn't figure it out.

Oh, obviously,” Reyna said. “Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag.” “True,” Annabeth agreed.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.

I have a really terrible sense of direction.

I have a good sense of direction.

I have a terrible sense of direction.

I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'

I have a horrible sense of direction.

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

I have an incredible compass. You can put me back in a country I haven't been in 20 years and say, 'Get me from point A to point B,' and I'll take you there.

I've always been terrible at land navigation.

The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.

I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.

Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.