Ken Jennings Quotes

There's just something hypnotic about maps.

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

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

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

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

I've always been terrible at land navigation.

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 [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

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.

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

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

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.

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.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

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

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

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

My first occupation was to map the country.

Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.

I like to run in a new place to help me find my way around.

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