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I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. -- Clarence Thomas
It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. -- Henry Rollins
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. -- Franz Kafka
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions. -- Nancy Mairs
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you. -- Vandana Shiva
Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine. -- Rob Lowe
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
In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground. -- Henry Ward Beecher
See me looking like Atlas, when he handle the globe. I see you looking like Alice, Wonderland is your home. It makes me wonder if you practice your flow... -- One Be Lo
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
An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal with his own defense. Increase his burdens and you will crush him...This is our present posture...This suggestions I make...would...conserve American lives for American ends. -- Murray Rothbard
My grandmother is a famous atlas. -- Joanna Lumley
Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity. -- Andy Wachowski
'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity. -- Andy Wachowski
I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it. -- Paul Ryan
The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan... -- Rosita Forbes
In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities. -- Fabiola Gianotti
Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film. -- Albert S. Ruddy
As for me, I did the stupidest thing in my life, which is saying a lot. I attacked the Titan Lord Atlas. -- Rick Riordan
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. -- David Mitchell
It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball. -- Henryk Sienkjewicz
... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use. -- Timothy Gowers
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
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour. -- Edward Young
The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time. -- Gerhard Richter
Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.' 'How can I escape my fate?' 'You must choose your destiny. -- Jeanette Winterson
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
I loved Morocco. It's very exotic and different from anywhere I've ever been. I had an amazing day there in the high Atlas Mountains near Mount Tamadot, when I rode by donkey into a Berber village and drank some mint tea with a Berber family. It was exceptional. -- Isla Fisher
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder. -- Ray Bradbury
There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood ...in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs. -- Raj Patel
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat. -- Mark Twain
Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip. -- J. Maarten Troost
I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird. -- Ken Jennings
Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere. -- Joanna Lumley
The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland. -- Ian Watson
I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films. -- Seth Shostak
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
I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands. -- Christian Louboutin
He aint in your world you can take em off your atlas -- Drake
I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me. -- Evelyn Waugh
I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep. -- Lauren DeStefano
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India. -- Dervla Murphy
A brand-new thought: Transatlantic airmail. She tests the phrase, scratching it out on the paper, over and over, transatlantic, trans atlas, trans antic. The distance finally broken. -- Colum McCann
Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, â??where does it hurt?' It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. -- Warsan Shire
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

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