William Alcott Quotes

#1. Theology is a means to enjoying and worshiping God, or it is useless.

John Piper

#2. Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

William Alcott

#3. One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.

William Alcott

#4. Surely a pen is like a blade; if it is not used then it becomes dull.

Faith Mortimer

#5. How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

Ashly Lorenzana

#6. Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state ... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?

William Alcott

#7. I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

George Sand

#8. He would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through the long summer afternoons that had a touch of eternity to them, altering the arrangement of his limbs as much for comfort as for the fear that his undisturbed shadow would leave a stain on the wall.

Nadeem Aslam

#9. All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

Samuel Beckett

#10. To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance
not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

Richard Hugo

#11. Because I wanted that smile every morning right after mind-blowing sex and right before my tater tots. And I wanted it for a lifetime.

Kristen Ashley