Sanitised Quotes

#1. I don't think anyone takes the deaths in Midsomer as seriously as in say Wire In The Blood or Silent Witness. We're part of the old British 'whodunnit'. We're much more gentle and the deaths are sanitised, in a sense.

John Nettles

#2. In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

Bruce Forsyth

#3. Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

Morris Gleitzman

#4. Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.

Nick Park

#5. Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

Stanley Kubrick

#6. Disneyworld ... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

Alan Coren

#7. Executing a criminal often makes a martyr of him. Once he's dead and gone, people all too often forget the crimes he's committed and start to see a more sanitised version. A person like that starts to be seen as a victim.

John Flanagan

#8. Real life is pockmarked and frail and deeply satisfying. The media image of life is sanitised and glossy and dissappointing.

Stefan Szczelkun

#9. It is the - actually profoundly unartistic - impulse to produce exterior likeness rather than inner truth: the same impulse as naturalistic photograpy and the copy.

Joseph Roth

#10. I'm a control freak with regards to certain aspects. I think you just have to be when you're making stuff in the world. You have to have a clear idea what you want.

Jenny Lewis

#11. By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.

Martin Parr

#12. People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.

Kate Beckinsale

#15. Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon - and yet they will always survive.

George Orwell