Atlas famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
-- Clarence Thomas -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I can only drive slowly." "That's all right." "And I can only do left turns." Rose ran downstairs, grabbed a road atlas, and ran triumphantly back up again. "Wales is left! Look! It's left all the way!
-- Hilary McKay -
I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
-- Ken Jennings -
I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.
-- Lauren DeStefano -
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
-- Nancy Mairs -
I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.
-- Paul Ryan -
Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.
-- Rob Lowe -
... 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 -
The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan.
-- Rosita Forbes
