Sanitized Quotes

#1. Americans in 1763 lived always in the shadow and presence of death. Death was not yet romanticized as it would be in the 19th century, nor yet sanitized as it would be in the 20th century.

Colin G. Calloway

#2. I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

Rob Marshall

#3. I stepped inside. It smelled like cleaning fluid and salt: sanitized tears. Not mine, I thought. "You

Kerry Kletter

#4. The vast country is still there, but it has somehow been altered by intrusions, "peopled" to death.
It is all gone, all changed, all tamed and pacified and cleaned and boiled and sanitized and made healthy and politically correct.

Gary Paulsen

#5. We don't share our thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them, Hollywood adaptations of those thoughts dumbed down for the PG-13 crowd.

Jonathan Tropper

#6. I'm Japanese, but restaurants in my hometown served the most sanitized versions of California rolls. I grew up eating a lot of Japanese food at home that my parents or grandparents made.

Adrian Tomine

#7. The authorized biographers - the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life - sit up front with the swells while the unauthorized biographer who writes without access or approval gets elbowed to the back of the bus.

Kitty Kelley

#8. What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it.

Rose George

#9. When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

Rhys Ifans

#10. The world had been sanitized like Disney had done to Times Square. They had gotten rid of God, family, and country along with the graffiti.

Michael J. Sullivan

#11. These words have been sanitized for your protection. An adjective and a noun, respectively.

Libba Bray

#12. America wasn't interested in the roots of house music because it was too black, it was too gay, it was all these things, and today it's made very sanitized and white.

Felix Buxton

#13. You are only allowed to see a sanitized version of death.

Eckhart Tolle

#14. I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person.

Catherine Hardwicke

#15. Tie Society, a start-up in Washington, D.C., stocks more than 300 designer ties - each of which, if bought, would cost an arm and a leg. For a monthly fee of $11, subscribers receive a box of sanitized ties to use, and they can change their tie selection monthly.

Jeremy Rifkin

#16. Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

Edward Carey

#17. Science fiction used to be a dangerous literature. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to have been safely sanitized for the marketplace. The real crime is that the lobotomy has been self performed. I

Harlan Ellison

#18. Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.

Madison Smartt Bell

#19. If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I'll take it.

Darrell Hammond

#20. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. We don't share thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them.

Jonathan Tropper

#21. Slavery has not been abolished, it has been sanitized

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#22. The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it's still going on, well I think it's sad really, but at the time I really loved it. I loved all the black house music that was coming out of Chicago and New Jersey, which I just thought was really soulful.

Paul Weller

#23. As Robert Bly laments in Iron John, Some women want a passive man if they want a man at all; the church wants a tamed man - they are called priests; the university wants a domesticated man - they are called tenure-track people; the corporation wants a ... sanitized, hairless, shallow man.

John Eldredge

#24. Today "aged" foods like sauerkraut, miso, and tempeh are fermented in hygienically sanitized stainless-steel vats to assure cleanliness, so we can no longer be sure they will provide us with the B12 we need. Vegans should not mess around with this issue.

Sharon Gannon

#25. We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

Phil Taylor

#26. THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all

Richard Dawkins

#27. One cannot fight for so long without the scars building on one's soul.

J.A. London

#28. The heaviest snowfall in over 60 years is being reported in Beijing, China. To give you an idea of how bad it is, the army is now using snowplows to run over dissidents.

Jay Leno

#29. For Conservatives, seeing is believing. For liberals, believing is seeing.

George Will

#30. Your song, what does it know?
Deepinsnow,
Eepinow,
E-i-o.

Paul Celan

#31. Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals.

Jacques Vallee

#32. They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary.
"You?"
"Great."
They'd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.

Louise Penny

#33. The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope.

Lewis Black

#34. You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

Vijay Seshadri

#35. If you had twenty minutes to live, what would you do?" "I don't know," I answered. "But it wouldn't have anything to do with you.

Rick Yancey