Ayn Rand Quotes

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Ayn Rand

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• I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Thoughts
  • Look
  • Fools

• I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Live
  • Beautiful

• We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Real
  • Home

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Past
  • Like
  • Losers

• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Change
  • Challenge

• The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Man
  • Health

• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • Evil

• I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Place
  • Where
  • Favourite

• Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Reality

• When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Working
  • First
  • Year

• Everybody wants to be great at something.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Great
  • Something
  • Wants

• It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Food

• Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Grow
  • Cash

• There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • Flying
  • Direction

• I went to drama school in England, and you spend your first year working on the muscles surrounding the vocal mechanisms. You learn how you support it and create characters through your voice so that became an obsession. So I went to Hollywood thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be one of the great voice-over artists.'

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • School

• In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Power
  • Vision
  • Twilight

• Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as... as assistance that is unwelcome, as long as they continue to be humiliated in their own country by us... I mean, the future looked bleak, and the future after that was in fact very bleak.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I literally waste my time on a song that doesn't hold up to the same standards as the other songs on the album? I won't play it live.

  

  Jessica Anne Newham
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Done
  • Morning
  • Lies

• But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Real
  • Death
  • Son

• We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Imagination

• I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

  

  Ayn Rand