Nothing I do is salacious or provocative or shocking for…

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

— J. Hoberman

Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as…

— Vladimir Putin

I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

— Vladimir Putin

Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so many issues…

— Jeremy Shearmur

The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.

— Wes Smith

I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and…

— Esther Perel

“A good quotation must be provocative; as provocative as to demolish an old wrong castle in the mind with a single strike!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The broadcasting industry definitely has changed, and I'm talking about young broadcasters who come along today, they really feel like they have to do…

— Jim Nantz

For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up… It’s a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If…

— Guillermo del Toro

“A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.”

— Simona Panova

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

— Jamais Cascio

“Truth is found at the bottom of a bottomless pit." Jerome Facher - A Civil Action.”

— Jonathan Harr

Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at…

— John Wesley

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely…

— John Updike

Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science,…

— Peggy Phelan