I am never going to write for the sake of writing.
Emma Lazarus

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it.
Kenneth Branagh

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

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

I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.
Denis Thatcher

I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.
Cat Deeley

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.
Lynn Redgrave

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

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.
Lionel Blue

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
Peter Hammill

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.
Mikhail Kalashnikov

I have never designed a language for its own sake.
Niklaus Wirth

I hope there are some who will brave ridicule for the sake of common justice to half the people in the world.
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
Antonio Porchia

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
John D. Rockefeller

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.
Joshua Homme

I learned to love dance for its own sake.
Suzanne Farrell