Chelsea Peretti Quotes

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

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

There's just something hypnotic about maps.

I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.

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

Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

Bad neighbors will keep cartographers busy well into the next century.

Anaximander the Milesian, a disciple of Thales, first dared to draw the inhabited world on a tablet; after him Hecataeus the Milesian, a much-travelled man, made the map more accurate, so that it became a source of wonder.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle — that's my map of Africa.

I have an incredible sense of direction, but London is confusing. It's a circle, but then it stops being a circle.

We have built many of our systems with maps as the foundation. We are seeing that a lot of intelligent businesses are doing the same.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. You haven't heard of the bayof mante, have you? He said. “No, sir,” said Mort. Famous shipwreck there. “Was there?” there will be, said Death, if I can find the damn place.

It's just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use.

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.

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

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.

I wisely started with a map.

I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.

All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

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