Quotes About Thought-provoking

Un libro debería abrir viejas heridas, inflingir incluso heridas nuevas, un libro debería ser peligroso

summed up so well that it came to far more    Than the

It unnerved her, how not wrong he was.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.

Jane--it's history, all this. I say that I have always thought history to be of great relevance.

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous—they contain ideas.

Modernism and Fundamentalism are popular—they are two quick and easy answers to a complex question.

And there are plays – and books and songs and poems and dances – that are perhaps upsetting or intricate or unusual, that leave you unsure, but which you think about perhaps the next day, and perhaps for a week, and perhaps for the rest of your life. Because they aren't clean, they aren't neat, but there's something in them that comes from the heart, and, so, goes to the heart.

Something in the early summer of 2019 had us all thinking about enormous gaping assholes.

The clarity disturbed me. "She

This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.

I want to make people laugh, but I also want to do things that have a serious impact on people - that affect the way they think about something or help them in some way.

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

I'm always looking for ways to make people laugh, but I also want to make them think. That's the real challenge of satire.

I feel like Vertigo is a place to have an adult discussion for adult readers.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view.

are dangerous. Wills are dangerous. You are heavily armed with both." Tavi

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

Se dice, por ejemplo, que lo más misterioso no es la noche profunda sino el mediodía, el momento en que todas las cosas están instaladas en su evidencia, en el que se desnuda el hecho mismo de la existencia de las cosas. El hecho de que estén allí es más misterioso que la noche, que despierta pensamientos del secreto. Un secreto se descubre, pero un misterio se revela y es imposible descubrirlo.

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

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.

In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.