Provocative Quotes · Page 5

“Life was a revolving mystery, sometimes terrifying, sometimes maddening. But always provocative. Interesting. And although its meaning seemed beyond my grasp, it…

— Christina Meldrum

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new…

— David Rockefeller

There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's…

— Sam Esmail

I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.

— Mark Lanegan

...More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative.

— John Hospers

It's still the White House exploding [in "Independence Day"]. It was just so provocative, and no one had ever done it before.…

— Roland Emmerich

There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.

— Roger Vadim

It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own…

— Lyall Watson

I hardly follow the Finnish metal scene at all at the moment. I'm more interested in traditional '80s heavy metal, and I'm…

— Jussi Lehtisalo

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

“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

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

— Veena Sud

The Playtex Secrets survey truly uncovered some thought-provoking and provocative secrets of real American housewives. In fact, many of the findings would…

— Alfre Woodard

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

— Esther Perel

Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Steve Kornacki

I have a sense of respect: respect for my suppliers, respect for the staff, respect for the customer - as long as…

— Daniel Boulud

“What kind of understanding?" he murmured almost absently, his mind clearly on other, more provocative things. The trace of amusement in his…

— Christine Feehan

While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our…

— Raimond Gaita

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education…

— Aaron Scharf

We are in a very critical and sensitive time in this nation. We need our president to sit down with folks who…

— Tim Scott

Trump has his own audience, which is in many cases as big as or bigger than the media covering him. He doesn't…

— Rush Limbaugh

I was rejected many times. I cried. I was told that female actors are replaceable in films because they just stand behind…

— Priyanka Chopra

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

— Peggy Phelan

“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

I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's…

— M.I.A

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during…

— John Malkovich

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb…

— Andres Serrano

I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up…

— Wangechi Mutu

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

— Vladimir Putin

I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people…

— Laura Wade

I don't want the public perceiving us as the taunting, provocative ghost hunters. We do that only to the bad spirits who…

— Zak Bagans

No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.

— Llewelyn Powys

I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.

— George Meyer

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

— Adrian Mitchell

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative…

— Sigmar Gabriel

A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's…

— Nalini Singh

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

— Toni Morrison

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

— Isaac Barrow