Nowadays, everything is so gratuitous. The violence is suggested, and it's much more impactful than showing everything. — Oliver Jackson-Cohen Copy Share Image
There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“There is something gratuitous about creation, an unnecessary abundance of beauty, and through its blossoms and pleasures we can revel in the… — Michael Reeves Copy Share Image
In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so… — Lloyd Kaufman Copy Share Image
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very much part of the world. There's a lot… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the equivalent of saying you need… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to be gratuitous, for the sake of being gratuitous, but when it serves the stories and the characters,… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I would never condone anything which I thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try… — Gallagher Copy Share Image
Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I'm a pragmatist, and I don't like gratuitous fashion - in fact, there's not that much gratuitous anything in my life. — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that… — Gina Rodriguez Copy Share Image
We were mainly concerned about nudity - how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous,… — Joseph Stefano Copy Share Image
I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous. — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the time when you see rape on the television it is gratuitous and there to either bolster viewing figures… — Douglas Henshall Copy Share Image
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
