Quotes Tagged "geography"

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

The strata of time will usually be buried above the foundation of bedrock.

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

There is adventure in finding compelling stories and exploring complex issues in challenging environments, but there is also a responsibility to tell those stories accurately and objectively.

Geography is the multidisciplinary summary of life

By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in the Mid-east, and hardening political positions that make Mid-east peace-building more remote by the day.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

If there's a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a very large geography in the world, that choice does not exist.

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados; and western states commonly face damaging droughts. Extreme weather does not discriminate by American geography.