Provocative Quotes · Page 6

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same…

— Toni Morrison

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it…

— Bryan Stevenson

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature.…

— Helen Suzman

White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative…

— Tim DeKay

People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.

— Madonna Ciccone

Father's ideals became part of me and still are today. His reserve, deeply rooted liberal views, his provocative humour, his passion for…

— Niki de St. Phalle

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive…

— Jamais Cascio

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

— J. Hoberman

We played all that rhetoric, all of the thing - the provocative inflammatory things [Donald Trump] said over the last year, does…

— Steve Kornacki

I think it's a real debate how big NATO should be and whether or not it's more provocative than good. Whenever there's…

— Rand Paul

And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of…

— Veena Sud

“I find suggestion a hell of a lot more provocative than explicit detail. You didn't see Clark[Gable] and Vivien[leigh] rolling around in…

— Joan Crawford

Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot…

— Joshua Michael Stern

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as…

— Terry Richardson

President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is…

— Steve Inskeep

I think it's important to sort of normalize male nudity on screen, because women are always naked. And none of the male…

— Eliza Hittman

“Hey! look at us We're digging and digging Into stubborn, ancient earth; We're discovering Where we came from, and how we came.…

— Lois A. Cheney

But you can still find good films if you read your local film critics and are willing to drive a bit. You…

— Stephen Hunter

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

— Lady Gaga

I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit…

— Frida Giannini

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

— David LaChapelle

Starz is a network that's going for the content that's extremely honest and pushing the envelope and is provocative.

— Naturi Naughton

A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the…

— Vladimir Putin

It's more provocative to say 'might still have sex' because - it doesn't matter to me. There's not, like, one that hurts…

— Taylor Swift

Creative synthesis has a basic, bisociative pattern : the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills or matrices of thought.

— Arthur Koestler

I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.

— Julie London

A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at…

— Eleanor Brown

“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –”

— Simona Panova

My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London,…

— Cee Lo Green

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a…

— Shirley Manson

I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

— Christopher Darden

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one…

— Peter Greenaway

I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down.…

— Lady Gaga

I have nothing but the highest regard for 'Salon' and its commitment to independent and provocative journalism.

— Glenn Greenwald

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble…

— Rob Bell

I hate the idea that you have to give up anything. I think you can be powerful and still be provocative, you…

— Michael Kors

I like to maintain my collection as a provocative collection that makes people think. While certainly my stamp will be visible on…

— Thom Browne

Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get…

— Jimmy Carter

Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to…

— Toni Morrison

I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had…

— Josh Hartnett