Top 138 Provoking Quotes & Sayings
Explore popular Provoking quotes.
Last updated on November 6, 2024.
I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.
I come from a Punjab and a community that has taught me that art is meant to be challenging, infuriating and thought provoking.
Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?
Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.
A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a bit instructive.
Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.
Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.
By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.
But we all have experiences of having a truly good time after watching a movie that is not thought-provoking, don't we? I do too and I've been wishing to do that kind of movie. I think 'Collectors' is exactly that.
I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.
I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.
Even though ripping on those of the Christian cloth is nothing new, edgy, or thought provoking, Hollywood feels the need to do it with each of their religiously overtoned talkies.
My earlier books, 'The Oath,' 'This Present Darkness' were pretty straight adventure. 'The Visitation' is like a deeper book, more thought-provoking. It probes at character more.
intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.
I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.
Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.
I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.
I don't like to rehearse, and the film-makers that I have been drawn to are interested in provoking something between people rather than nailing a scene in advance.
I still believe that education is about provoking some kind of original, creative thought.
I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.
I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice.
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.
Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.
I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.
Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest.
An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.
The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).
Going back to the films I made in the nineties, they might not have been the most thought-provoking movies, but there was always this conscious thing of knowing that it was fourteen-year-old surfers who were really into it, and so I've wanted to be responsible with that.
I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.
Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.
The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.
'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.
Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.
I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.
People know excessive consumption of anything is bad for health. By imposing a ban on something, we are, in a way, provoking them to do it.
Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent.
Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages
