It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.
There's no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.
The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.
Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.
Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.
'God Made Girls' was such a success for me. I'm so blessed to have over half a million downloads on that song. I was the highest-charting new female in 2014, and I couldn't have done that without Big Machine and their support.
