Never place your punch at the beginning of a column nor at the end. Sneak it in where it's least expected. Fill a whole column with drivel, just to get in that one important line.

Ayn Rand

Tag: writing-craft



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She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

Ayn Rand

Tag: feminism



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She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted!

Ayn Rand

Tag: inspirational achievement



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He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.

Ayn Rand


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Do not let the hero in your soul perish...

Ayn Rand

Tag: inspirational-quotes



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How did you know what's been killing me? Slowly, for years, driving me to hate people when I don't want to hate... Have you felt it, too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you--except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them, nothing, not even a sound they can recognize. You mean, you want to hear? You want to know what I do and why I do it, you want to know what I think? It's not boring to you? It's important?

Ayn Rand

Tag: fountainhead howard-roark mallory



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Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

Ayn Rand

Tag: individualism objectivism



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Lillian moved forward to meet her, studying her with curiosity. They had met before, on infrequent occasions, and she found it strange to see Dagny Taggart wearing an evening gown. It was a black dress with a bodice that fell as a cape over one arm and shoulder, leaving the other bare: the naked shoulder was the gown’s only ornament. Seeing her in the suits she wore, one never thought of dagny taggart’s body. The black dress seemed excessively revealing – because it was astonishing to discover that the lines of her shoulder were fragile and beautiful, and that the diamond band on the wrist of her naked arm gave her the most feminine of all aspects: the look of being chained.

Ayn Rand

Tag: beauty



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Did it ever occur to you," asked Kira, "that I may be here for the very unusual, unnatural reason of wanting to learn a work I like only because I like it?

Ayn Rand

Tag: independent



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Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Ayn Rand

Tag: philosophy galt objectivism taggart



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