I get to go to overseas places, like Canada.
Britney SpearsTags: celebutard dumb canada geography
(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.
Tags: humor america geography beatles media wordplay greenland
Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.
S.E. HintonTags: sun geography sunset class-division
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Mark TwainAll I ever wanted was a world without maps.
Michael OndaatjeTags: geography
Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and recognized and guessed and supposed, all the skills of the imagination. Language itself is a continuously imaginative act. Rational discourse outside our familiar territory of Greek logic sounds to our ears like the wildest imagination. The Dogon, a people of West Africa, will tell you that a white fox named Ogo frequently weaves himself a hat of string bean hulls, puts it on his impudent head, and dances in the okra to insult and infuriate God Almighty, and that there's nothing we can do about it except abide him in faith and patience.
This is not folklore, or quaint custom, but as serious a matter to the Dogon as a filling station to us Americans. The imagination; that is, the way we shape and use the world, indeed the way we see the world, has geographical boundaries like islands, continents, and countries. These boundaries can be crossed. That Dogon fox and his impudent dance came to live with us, but in a different body, and to serve a different mode of the imagination. We call him Brer Rabbit.
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New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
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It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago
Dan QuayleTags: dumb geography chicago gaffe
Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.
Terry PratchettThree 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.
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