Inspirational Stalwart Quotes

#1. Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

Aleksa Palladino

#2. Culture is sustained in our synapses ... It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

Nicholas Carr

#3. There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.

Egerton Brydges

#4. She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.

Laini Taylor

#5. Generally speaking, people useless at everything else become academics

Steven Erikson

#6. Our fate is determined in rooms that must be easy to clean

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#7. Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.

Tobias Hill

#8. Google doesn't really forget.

Ethan Zuckerman

#9. Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

John Gierach

#10. You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not all subjects or light conditions appear that way ... be sensible and paint with values that are appropriate and faithful to your subject.

Richard Schmid

#11. We are inheritors of progress, of a technological rebirth that had only ever been imagined before now. We don't talk about it, but at some point, it became clear to me: I am the child of a bookless age.

Ashley Mansour