Provocative Quotes · Page 6

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

— John Podhoretz

I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had…

— Josh Hartnett

Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to…

— Toni Morrison

Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get…

— Jimmy Carter

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

— Thom Browne

I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous.

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

— Elia Suleiman

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better,

— Biz Stone

I've always had an interest in the fashion industry. Fashion advertising and lifestyle branding has always been intriguing and provocative to me.…

— Ashley Purdy

“if Greece were a woman so sensually provocative that I must fall physically and desperately in love with her, and at the…

— John Fowles

Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and…

— David J. Skorton

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I write both, as you know, dozens of ecological and social scientific and historical works, dozens of novels. It's hard to describe…

— Michael Tobias

I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career…

— Allison Williams

“He had said she was provocative; so she was, she needed to prove she was there to be seen; but the proof…

— A.S. Byatt

People can't bear the idea that I could be sexual and provocative, and still be a nice person with a nice family…

— Demi Moore

This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness…

— Alexander Nehamas

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

— Isaac Barrow

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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

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

— George Meyer

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 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'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

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

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

— Vladimir Putin

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

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

— John Malkovich

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

Starz is a network that's going for the content that's extremely honest and pushing the envelope and is provocative.

— Naturi Naughton

It's more provocative to say 'might still have sex' because - it doesn't matter to me. There's not, like, one that hurts…

— Taylor Swift

A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the…

— Vladimir Putin

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

— David LaChapelle

I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit…

— Frida Giannini

Creative synthesis has a basic, bisociative pattern : the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills or matrices of thought.

— Arthur Koestler

People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.

— Madonna Ciccone

White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative…

— Tim DeKay