Quotes About Thought-provoking

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.

I am attracted to arguments that have a certain plausible originality to them.

I like poems that are little games.

I'm just a weird mix of immature and intelligent and I like to share my point of view and who I am.

I like confusing people and challenging myself.

Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

The thing I'm always trying to do when I write is hit that sweet spot where the book both keeps you up late at night, and yet a week after you've finished, it still pops back into your head.

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Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

She says queer things sometimes in a bantering way that you don't notice at the time and you find yourself thinking about afterward.

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .

Theories serve to annoy philistines, appeal to aesthetes, and amuse the rest of us.

I sometimes go to a movie and eat my popcorn and turn my brain off. I love those movies. But the movies I like to be in, for the most part, are the ones that challenge you.

Rupi Kaur is an author and poet who posts the most beautiful, thought-provoking excerpts on her Instagram.

I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

I like some of my stuff not to be particularly funny. It's supposed to be amusing, entertaining or thought-provoking, like a curiosity. If you put it on in front of 500 people in the Odeon they wouldn't laugh. They shouldn't laugh.

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

But then such a book as this is not meant to amuse.

Only a stupid person would say that. Well, and yet I've just said it. Yes.

Religion is a collective insanity.