Undergirding The Ship Quotes

#1. I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.

Deb Caletti

#2. He ran barefoot across the springy floor of the pine forest; he was dancing with the earth.

Richard Weihe

#3. Neurosurgery requires a commitment to one's own excellence and a commitment to another's identity. The

Paul Kalanithi

#4. I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

Adam Smith

#5. You'd be surprised at the sorts of things hidden away in children's songs.

Patrick Rothfuss

#6. Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years.

Joe Pass

#7. I learned ... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

#8. Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

Alexander Chee

#9. And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.

John F. Kerry