Ken Jennings Quotes

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

There's just something hypnotic about maps.

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

I like geography. I like to know where places are.

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

We were just looking at maps.

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.

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.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.

Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

Without geography you're nowhere.

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

My first occupation was to map the country.

For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

When the terrain differs from the map, you have to go with the terrain.

Geography is everywhere

Some persons were to be sent in search of the river Missouri in order to discover whether it had any communication with the Pacific Ocean …

History is not intelligible without geography.