Provocative famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
-- Adrian Mitchell -
Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better,
-- Biz Stone -
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.
-- David J. Skorton -
It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.
-- David Rockefeller -
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.
-- Deborah Harkness -
Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
-- Don Rickles -
A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level.
-- Eleanor Brown -
Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.
-- Erin Morgenstern -
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
-- Isaac Barrow -
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.
-- J. Hoberman -
Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought.
-- Janet Lembke -
To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.
-- John McTiernan -
I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
-- Kathryn Bigelow -
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.
-- Kenneth Goldsmith -
It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.
-- Lyall Watson -
Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.
-- Matt Haig -
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.
-- Sigmar Gabriel -
You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
-- Vladimir Putin -
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
-- William S. Burroughs -
I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.
-- Judy Dater -
I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.
-- Kevin O'Leary -
I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.
-- Polly Allen Mellen -
Nothing I do is salacious or provocative or shocking for the sake of that.
-- Rami Malek -
There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.
-- Roger Vadim -
Again and again [Tomas] Jefferson deftly sidesteps many of [John] Adams's often provocative remarks. They both felt the correspondence, which was written for posterity, was too important to risk by being too candid with one another.
-- Gordon S. Wood
