Provocative Quotes

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.

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

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

Kanye West is inspirational. He expresses such a strong vision beyond music, beyond fashion - it's art. He sn't afraid to push boundaries and be provocative.

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

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

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

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

It's still the White House exploding [in "Independence Day"]. It was just so provocative, and no one had ever done it before. I remember when we shot it, how everyone was excited.

Obama believes the cops are the problem. That's why his new philosophy is to have them withdraw and refrain and not be seen because just their presence is provocative.

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

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

I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I'm still proud of it.

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.

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

I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.

Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television.

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

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

I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.

My message is strong and my belief is strong, in the fact that we can still be provocative and have fun and just get informed.

It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.

I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

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

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.

There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.

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

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

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

Some champions are born others are forged!

Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.

we only shout when we neglect what silence can do

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

To paraphrase Forrest Gump, "Ugly is, as Ugly does!

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

I died for a short while the first time we met