Locution Quotes

#1. Be happy to, I said, cringing to hear such a dumb, folksy locution escape my lips, then launched into my well-rehearsed precis. The fact that humankind now finds itself in a post-Darwinian epistemological condition, I explained, need not trouble us from an ethical perspective.

James K. Morrow

#2. It happens that I despise that locution, "having sex," which describes something a good deal more mechanical than making love and a good deal less fun than fucking.

Wallace Stegner

#3. He growled. "You know quite well that that locution is vile.

Rex Stout

#4. Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

Peter S. Beagle

#5. I promise. and as I said it I felt that from that instant a door had been shut between us.

Bram Stoker

#6. Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

Carlos Fuentes

#7. The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

William Hazlitt

#8. In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

Henry A. Wallace

#9. The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.

Elliott Erwitt