Best 43 quotes in «provocative quotes» category

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

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

I hardly follow the Finnish metal scene at all at the moment. I'm more interested in traditional '80s heavy metal, and I'm still a little scared of black metal and death metal and their provocative imagery.

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

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

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

I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.

Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it.

I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.

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

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

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

Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

Nothing I do is salacious or provocative or shocking for the sake of that.

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

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

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.

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

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.

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

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

A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.

There is no such thing as a former KGB man.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me?

As she spoke she changed in some provocative way, seemed suddenly drenched in eroticism as a diver rising out of a pool gleams like chrome with a sheet of unbroken water for a fractional moment.

I’d love to try to tame you... And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –

Hey! look at us We're digging and digging Into stubborn, ancient earth; We're discovering Where we came from, and how we came. "but where are you going?" Hey! look at us We're learning and learning Into stubborn laws Of nature and space And non-nature and non-space; We're discovering All there is to know. "but where are you going?" Hey! look at us We're planning and planning Into stubborn years Of education and training And hopes and dreams; We're discovering How not to waste any time. "but where are you going?" Hey! look at us We're shiny and bright And clever and sophisticated And witty and well-read; We're discovering How to really fill up This old life. "but where are you going?" where? "Yes; where?

I died for a short while the first time we met

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

No controversy, no PR.

Some champions are born; others are forged!

We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is where we differ. That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are silent, because we understand that by ourselves alone, we are nothing at all, dust in a strong wind, while the 'hakujin' believes his aloneness is everything, his separateness is the foundation of his existence. He seeks and grasps, seeks and grasps for his separateness, while we seek union with the Greater Life--you must see that these are distinct paths we are travelling, Hatsue, the 'hakujin' and we Japanese" (p. 176).

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.

You can't handle the truth!" - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men.

Truth is found at the bottom of a bottomless pit." Jerome Facher - A Civil Action.

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.