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What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
I'm looking like Atlas, not Professor Klump.
Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.
I always looked like an athlete but I didn't look like Charles Atlas.
I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?
I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.
Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.
Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.
I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.'
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan.
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.
ArcGIS includes a Living Atlas of the World. It's like a large living library of geographic information.
It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.
I'm fast for my size. I'm very good at moving events - throwing, pulling trucks, Atlas stones. I win them all.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.
'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film.
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.
Oh, I was a big Tony Atlas fan. I think I tried to throw my first dropkick because of Tony - and almost broke my shoulder.
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.
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.
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
Cloud Atlas' is but one of a long list of titles deemed unfilmable, by author and movie moguls alike, until it was, well, filmed.
Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They [granddaughters] went to Disneyland and Alice proudly told Snow White: 'My grandmother is a famous atlas!' So that's nice - they're happy that I'm an atlas!
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.
My sister and I had a tough childhood, but my mom always said that travelling is the most beautiful thing you can do in your life. She always showed us the globe and gifted me an atlas.
'Atlas Shrugged' shows when you have a singular vision of something and how quickly you can become attune to that vision and devalue others quickly based on their principles and ideologies.
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!
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.
Think Apple, think the FBI. We are living 'Atlas Shrugged.' Why is it so important? Because I would hate for the country to have that rhetorical question: Where is John Galt, who is John Galt? John Galt is all of us.
You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It's not the year I was born. I'm a little older than that. I wish it was the year I was born. It was the year one of my favorite books was written: 'Atlas Shrugged.' Ayn Rand.
Oftentimes in tech, people think, 'I'm the only one that has this.' I call them the Atlas People. They're like, 'The weight of the world is on the shoulders. I'm the only person who can solve this problem.' But you can't do that.
It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include David Mitchell. 'Cloud Atlas' is the most obvious choice, but I have opted for Mitchell's slightly lesser known debut, 'Ghostwritten.'
Nick gets carsick if he's not driving - plus, he's basically a walking atlas. He can drive around any city without a map, which works out fine for me because I just become our entertainment director and pick out which audio book we'll listen to next.
I guess when you take a look at the book 'Atlas Shrugged,' I think most people always like to identify with the main character - that would be John Galt. I guess I identify with Hank Rearden, the fella that just refused until the very end to give up.
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.