Sake Quotes

I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'

My parents are private investigators for God's sake.

For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure.

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.