The Fountainhead Quotes

Guy Francon, its designer, had known how to subordinate himself to the mandatory canons which generations of craftsmen behind him have proved inviolate [....] (1.4.3)

"Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?" (1.2.6)

Roark's words were like the steps of a man walking a tightwire, slow, strained, groping for the only right spot, quivering over an abyss, but precise. (1.8.23)

Keating did not care so long as his clients were impressed, the clients did not care so long as their guests were impressed, and the guests did not care anyway. (1.6.32)

Something was growing in him with each new building, struggling, taking shape, rising dangerously to an explosion. The explosion came with the birth of the skyscraper. (1.3.66)

"Accept them, Roark. Compromise. Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway [....]" (1.4.146)

"I'm the kind that uses people. I don't want to use you. Ever. Don't let me. Not you." (1.4.116)

He stopped, his mouth open, staring at her. He had not intended to say that. He had never allowed himself to think that before. (1.4.92)