Ayn Rand Quotes

On second handers: They are always concerned with people - not facts, ideas, work or production. What would happen to the world without those who think, work, and produce?

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• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Time
  • Like
  • Arts

• I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Think

• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Rose

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Personal

• For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Children
  • Home

• I like being unconventional.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Like
  • Being
  • Unconventional

• The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Important
  • Light
  • Space

• America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Thought

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • School
  • Home
  • America

• Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Singing

• We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Past
  • Fighting
  • Class

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Money
  • Power
  • Rise

• It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Brain

• I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Life
  • Why
  • My Life

• The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Quality

• I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.

  

  Douglas Trumbull
  • High

• I hate rap! Can I say that?

  

  Chris Kaman
  • Hate
  • Rap

• Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

  

  Black Elk
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• When a proto-type—a new initiative—doesn't work, we face two alternatives: one is to bitch about reality and the other is to harvest the gift it just gave us, the knowledge of what has to be corrected.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Work
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• On second handers: They are always concerned with people - not facts, ideas, work or production. What would happen to the world without those who think, work, and produce?

  

  Ayn Rand
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