Quotes About Thought-provoking

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

Write something that people might not "enjoy" but will never forget.

If a book doesn't make you want to throw it aside and think your own thoughts, what use is it?

The criterion for a book of worth is: does it make you think more, W. says.

The kind of humor I like is the thing which makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation...

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

The energy of the metal is what I've always loved and the energy I do on stage with standup, I mean, I'm not Metallica, but I've always extremely attracted and driven by that energy and the thought-provoking lyrics and drive. That's an attitude every standup show I go in. I go in to crush your face.

I want something that's going to linger and stay with me and give me something to think about and chew over. That's the real objective here; it creates something that doesn't feel disposable.

Some films are pure entertainment of course, but what interests me and what I want to do are projects that really make you think, that move you, that will bring you something that will stay with you for a while. I think films are essential to the intellectual awakening of people.

'The Survivalist' really makes you think. It stays with you.

I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife" - Hannibal Lecter

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

To put it simply, I'm not interested in making comfortable films, and I don't want to crush the audience's imagination. I want them to feel like they might have missed something.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Em que é que o que nunca existirá difere do que nunca existiu?

These sentences, evidently the ripened grain of many dark hours, took Gerald by surprise.

For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck?

You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.