Controversy Quotes · Page 2

Controversy sells books.

— Robert Gottlieb

Jew me, sue me, everybody do me.

— Michael Jackson

If it matters, it produces controversy.

— Anonymous

Where there is fire there not always is smoke.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

I was controversy's favorite wild child.

— Riya Sen

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Suicide is the only way out.

— Ozzy Osbourne

I don't like controversy.

— Sammy Sosa

The controversy unfortunately about 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' was all overblown.

— Kabir Khan

Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.

— Sheryl Crow

Making love in the green grass behind the stadium with you my brown eyed girl.

— Van Morrison

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

— Theodore Parker

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

— Josiah Warren

There's no controversy in my way. There's nobody telling me to rap like this or anything.

— Jayceon Terrell Taylor

Controversy sells, like that's exactly what it is and it boosts up hip-hop.

— Lola Monroe

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

— Felix Frankfurter

I want people to have conversations, to have controversy because it creates dialogue and builds bridges.

— Haaz Sleiman

I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Once 'Uyir' created a controversy, I had several offers coming my way with prominence to my character. However, I avoided them purposefully.

— Sangeetha Krish

There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without…

— Andrew Young

First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce)…

— Lewis Carroll

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as…

— Freda Adler

Urban Meyer's had a winning record. Really phenomenal record everywhere he's been. But also, controversy follows everywhere he's been.

— Jim Harbaugh

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the…

— Nancy Pelosi

It's a very scary time for a lot of people; they feel scared to speak up. There's so much controversy even speaking…

— Lauren Jauregui

A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel…

— Steven Weber

We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one…

— Norman Lear

To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that…

— Lawrence Wright

Because Bobby and I are both under the category of idols, I think it became a larger controversy. I hope that many…

— Kim Nam-joon

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from…

— Akon

I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion…

— John Travolta

I don't want to get embroiled in any controversy. At the same time, I want to take part in those conversations that…

— Mammootty

The 'Big Green Debate' has entered a very interesting stage. Once there was endless controversy; now there is near unanimity. Once there…

— Jonathon Porritt

For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our founding fathers. They set forth principles…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The real controversy comes with anthropologists - not all, but some - who see themselves as studying culture, and they then see…

— Hal Whitehead

There is no longer any question about the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diet. The greater the quantity and assortment…

— Joel Fuhrman

One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to…

— Arthur Schuster

There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not…

— Mary Parker Follett

There are certain things that are probably too mean. I don't particularly like fat jokes. Those kind of bother me. But I…

— Todd Barry

And God grant that His fire be not quenched! God save us from any smoothing over of these questions in the interests…

— John Gresham Machen