Gratuitous Quotes

58 quotes by 51 authors

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift. — Octavio Paz
All you can do is make a piece of product, sell it on its own terms, stand behind it and hope that people will go… — Roddy McDowall
Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to… — Aldous Huxley
Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes. — Judi Dench
I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem. — Rebecca Romijn
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler… — Henry David Thoreau
I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other… — Mahatma Gandhi
Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty,… — Annie Dillard
Gratuitous fat jokes always hurt, no matter what. — Josh Peck
I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous. — Amber Valletta
Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift .… — Jean-Paul Sartre
It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the… — Todd Rundgren
I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for… — Michael Biehn
I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content… — Rick Riordan
Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the… — Robert Genn
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated… — Henry Miller
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which… — Joyce Carol Oates
I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke. — Harold Ramis
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species… — Man Ray
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. — Simone Weil

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