Provocative Quotes · Page 9

I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image,…

— Madonna Ciccone

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

— Julie London

The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and…

— David Shuster

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of…

— John Legend

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

— Adrian Mitchell

Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution…

— Natalie Zemon Davis

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in…

— Frans de Waal

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

We're not trying to push the real provocative edge.

— Linda Johnson Rice

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

One can justify provocative moves if they serve an important strategic goal.

— John Mearsheimer

I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised…

— Jamie Sives

“I died for a short while the first time we met”

— Charlotte V. Howard

Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and…

— Ivars Peterson

Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic…

— Fred Barnes

I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television…

— Malcolm Mclaren

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

— Thom Browne

To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety…

— Zeena Schreck

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

— Christopher Darden

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

All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of…

— Lynn Margulis

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

— Priyanka Chopra

If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizen’s movement that helps heal the deep racial,…

— Connie May Fowler