Map Reading Quotes

I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.

According to a new geographic literacy study 4 out of 10 American students couldn't find Iraq on a map. However 10 out of 10 Mexicans could find the U.S. without a map.

Nick gets carsick if he's not driving - plus, he's basically a walking atlas. He can drive around any city without a map, which works out fine for me because I just become our entertainment director and pick out which audio book we'll listen to next.

I get lost a lot.

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.

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.

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.

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

I literally can't get anywhere now without the map on my phone. I used to use an A-Z when I first came to London, and now I really struggle because there's no dot to show where I am. And I think that part of my brain doesn't work any more.

I have a good sense of direction.

I have a terrible sense of direction.

That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

As a mountain walker, one of the most frustrating mistakes one can make in bad weather is taking the wrong route down.

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

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.

I have a horrible sense of direction.

The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.

For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.

I've always been terrible at land navigation.

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.