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.

Seth Shostak

'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film.

Albert S. Ruddy

Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.

Anne Hathaway

I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.

Christian Louboutin

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

Clarence Thomas

'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.

Cody Fern

For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.

Edward Rutherfurd

One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.

Ethan Canin

In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.

Fabiola Gianotti

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.

Franz Kafka

I'm fast for my size. I'm very good at moving events - throwing, pulling trucks, Atlas stones. I win them all.

Hafthor Bjornsson

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.

Harper Reed

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

Henry Rollins

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.

Ian Watson

Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.

J. Maarten Troost

ArcGIS includes a Living Atlas of the World. It's like a large living library of geographic information.

Jack Dangermond

Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.

Joanna Lumley

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

Ken Jennings

When I was 10, I asked my parents for a set of weights. I had my Charles Atlas book to go along with that. Every time we went to the grocery store, I'd rush to the magazine area and read the ones with Arnold Schwarzenegger and all those guys on the covers: 'Pumping Iron,' 'Muscle and Fitness,' 'Muscle Builder by Joe Weider.'

Lee Haney

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

Lilly Wachowski

Cloud Atlas' is but one of a long list of titles deemed unfilmable, by author and movie moguls alike, until it was, well, filmed.

Maria Konnikova