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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was a bit older than 14 by then. I was married and the one who painted the house and wasn't about to screw up the walls.
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  • Posted by PURB 9 years, 11 months ago
    Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles?
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What was Ayn Rand’s view of the libertarian movement?

    Ayn Rand was opposed to the libertarian movement of her time. In 1971 she wrote:

    For the record, I shall repeat what I have said many times before: I do not join or endorse any political group or movement. More specifically, I disapprove of, disagree with and have no connection with, the latest aberration of some conservatives, the so-called “hippies of the right,” who attempt to snare the younger or more careless ones of my readers by claiming simultaneously to be followers of my philosophy and advocates of anarchism. Anyone offering such a combination confesses his inability to understand either. Anarchism is the most irrational, anti-intellectual notion ever spun by the concrete-bound, context-dropping, whim-worshiping fringe of the collectivist movement, where it properly belongs.

    — “Brief Summary,” The Objectivist, Vol. 10, Sep. 1971
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  • Posted by PURB 9 years, 11 months ago
    This is out of context, but I'd offer a 20% discount to the first person who cites the source and explains the context of this great Rand line: "Anyone offering such a combination confesses his inability to understand either."
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  • Posted by PURB 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Just FYI, this is the line Rand inscribed to Isabele Paterson in "Pat"'s first edition copy of The Fountainhead.
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  • Posted by ycandrea 9 years, 11 months ago
    I thought Jsu Garcia in Atlas Shrugged part 1 was the best Francisco of all of them.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Right. I was just barely a teen when I saw the movie. I immediately bought a soft cover copy of the book. Then I bought 2 more copies.(Bye-bye Delivery boy money). I tore out Roark's speech from the two books and taped it to my bedroom wall so I could read it over again and again, and I kept the undefiled copy to read other parts.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 9 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    How about this one: "Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter." Said by Francisco d'Anconia at a party. I like this one so much that I have made it my email signature at times.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 11 months ago
    "But I don't think of you, Mr. Toohey."
    I love that line. In eight words, she taught me to live for myself and not for what others think of me.
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  • Posted by $ HeroWorship 9 years, 11 months ago
    "Those whom I respect, will know the truth about me, sooner or later. The others"—his face hardened—"the others consider that which I really am as evil. Let them have what they prefer—what I appear to be on the front pages."
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 11 months ago
    “You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated” -Howard Roark to Gail Wynand
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 9 years, 11 months ago
    Another bit of humor in Atlas was on Dagny's return from the Valley. In her office, she meets Cuffy Meigs,ordering the Comet to be rerouted to haul grapefruit for the Smather brothers. Eddie explains that Cuffy Meigs is from the Unification Board. Dagny says, "Just tell me if I understand that Unificator correctly..."

    Any other nominees?
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