Provocative Quotes

A provocative isinhgt! Just what we need!

— Chelsia

“No controversy, no PR.”

— Tim Fargo

I occasionally watch provocative videos.

— Jay Park

Don't be provocative Be CLASSY!!!

— Number1Angel

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

— Madonna

I do not want to answer provocative question.

— Vladimir Putin

There is no such thing as a former KGB man.

— Vladimir Putin

I don't think of my movies as provocative.

— Gaspar Noe

Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists. It destroys them.

— Vladimir Putin

Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

— Catherine Deneuve

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

— William S. Burroughs

I don't like to be provocative for the sake of being provocative.

— Madonna Ciccone

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

— Linda Johnson Rice

Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

— Matt Haig

It's difficult to stay relevant for many years, but I've somehow managed to do so. I'm honest and provocative.

— Tech N9ne

In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater…

— Jason Alexander

Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage him in talks, ask…

— Vladimir Putin

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work…

— Judy Dater

The most successful satirist is that one who shakes up and disturbs someones subconscious so as to make him think about something;…

— Anonymous

Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of…

— Anonymous

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

— Rob Lowe

Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to…

— David McCullough

In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways…

— John Hodgman

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

— Steve Kornacki

Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big…

— Jeff Goldblum

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

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Esther Perel

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

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

One of the elements of photography is, just by nature, journalistic. It's some kind of documentation. The most successful pictures to me…

— Richard Kern

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

In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in…

— Herb Boyd

“We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is…

— David Guterson

Do women dress for men or women? I’ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval -…

— Nancy Friday

It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly…

— Thomas I. Emerson

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

A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose…

— William O. Douglas