Dave Barry Quotes

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

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.

The two most important functional aspects to be fulfilled in a transportation facility are ease of wayfinding and easy orientation.

Ease of navigation is important in both physical and virtual space.

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.

The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

The more that you follow me, the more I get lost

Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.

A map is not a journey.

You have to know where you were going in order to get there.

Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter.

The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream.

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.

It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.

A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.

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.

Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.

Direction determines destination.