Gratuitous Quotes

58 quotes by 51 authors

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in… — Aldous Huxley
A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will… — Flannery O'Connor
His conviction of having no purpose in life other than to act as a distillation of poison was part of the ego of an eighteen-year-old.… — Yukio Mishima
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. — George Eliot
And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is. — Mircea Eliade
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure that isn't the… — Jim Butcher
I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films. — Edward Norton
There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe. — John Updike
We were mainly concerned about nudity - how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of… — Joseph Stefano
In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving… — Lloyd Kaufman
A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine. — Ray Wise
Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like… — Simone Weil
We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry — L Estrange
Lust is a ruinous and otherwise gratuitous, malignant desire. It's is a hunger for that which should never be consumed; it's a thirst for poison. — Colby Tatem
To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse -… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of… — Jonathan Miller
Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own — Mahatma Gandhi
Being a Christian doesn't sit well in this industry. I don't mind kissing scenes if they're telling the story, but I won't do them if… — Evangeline Lilly

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