Atlas Quotes - Page 2

• I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Relationship, Bad Ass

  Atlas Shrugged pt. 3, ch. 1 (1957)

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• Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility; the world is balanced on a pyramid of clowns, and they are always tooting horns and wobbling and goosing each other.

  Dean Koontz

  Responsibility, Pyramids, Giants

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Travel, Real, Pieces

  Evelyn Waugh (1934). “Ninety-two Days: Travels in Guiana and Brazil”, Serif Publishing

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• On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

  Dervla Murphy

  Children, Ambition, India

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• Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

  David Mitchell

  Inspiring, Kick Ass, Invisible

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• For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote: I give you the world. Have fun blowing it up.

  Craig Ferguson

  Fun, Years, Giving

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• Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Being Happy, Time

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.213, Penguin

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• I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.

  David Mitchell

  Waiting, Sound, May

  "Fictional character: Robert Frobisher". "Cloud Atlas", 2012.

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• I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort of things.

  Dave Matthews

  I Can

  "Dave Matthews no longer Strangely Brown". Associated Press interview, www.today.com. May 27, 2005.

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• What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

  David Mitchell

  Ocean, Drops In The Ocean, Multitudes

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.506, Random House Group

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• If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Doe, Needs, Action

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.111, Hamilton Books

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• My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

  David Mitchell

  Inspiring, Ocean, Limitless

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• As for me, I did the stupidest thing in my life, which is saying a lot. I attacked the Titan Lord Atlas.

  Rick Riordan

  Lord, Stupidest, Titans

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Literature, Contradiction

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.152, Hamilton Books

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• The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

  Ayn Rand

  Leadership, Men, Literature

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Character, Men

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1447, Penguin

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• Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Giving, Wish

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.315, Penguin

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• The other day I met a man who didn't know where Tripoli was. Tripoli happened to come into the conversation, and he was evidently at a loss. "Let's see," he said. "Tripoli is just down by the - er - you know. What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite, Thingumabob. I could show you in a minute on a map. It's near - what do they call it?" At this moment the train stopped, and I got out and went straight home to look at my atlas.

  A. A. Milne

  Home, Loss, Men

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• Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and peoples is the shape of their territories in an atlas. It's a stupid thought, but I can't shake it.

  Andrzej Stasiuk

  Stupid, Land, Together

  Andrzej Stasiuk (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.173, HMH

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• I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

  Ken Jennings

  Pleasure

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• What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.

  David Plotz

  Media, Digital, Wonderful

  "The 'How Does a Host of Working Work?' Transcript". Interview with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a pity to throw away. After a while, some sheets in the Atlas acquired another value, after all - that is, it seemed to me that they could stand on their own terms, not only under the protection of the Atlas.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Important, Garbage

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. "The pictures in the anatomy atlas did not show nail polish", she wrote. "Did you choose the color? Did you think that I would see it? I wanted to tell you about the inside of your hands. I want you to know you are always there when I see patients. When I palpate an abdomen, yours are the organs I imagine. When I listen to a heart, I recall holding your heart.

  Mary Roach

  Heart, Thinking, Hands

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• Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

  David Mitchell

  Sky, Clouds, Soul

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.308, Random House

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• Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.

  Anne Hathaway

  Art, Character, Mean

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