Quotes About Thought-provoking

I come from a Punjab and a community that has taught me that art is meant to be challenging, infuriating and thought provoking.

I love anything that really pushes the envelope as far as where it takes your mind. When it's well written and brings you into a world that possibly could be, I think that's the most entertaining for me - to see something that could actually take place and causes you to think.

I am an artiste in a free world, I am supposed to raise questions.

Ooh, aren't we getting solemn, and where did I leave my soapbox? Look

Yetkin, ama ac? veren bir büyü ile buradas?n?z! Benim burada olduÄŸum gibi, daha da elle tutulur biçimde; ben neredeysem siz de oradas?n?z, benim olduÄŸum kadar, daha da belirli.

Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves.

Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it?

I like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.

Don't worry. Felix is subtler than he looks. And he's not an assassin." The four vaporized terrorists north of us would probably disagree, I thought.

I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head - even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you're really like to be.

that there is something brilliant about them. It is that there is something wrong with us.

Italo Calvino quote, 'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.' For I have read The Great Gatsby numerous times, and always discover new things in each reading.

an intriguing puzzle that diverted him from the unbearable burden of living. HIJMS

Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

These books are all refreshingly clear-headed and unfashionable, free of cant and free of Kant;

Por qué te ha gustado? —le preguntó Nino. —Todavía no sé si me ha gustado. —Pero te ha intrigado. —Me ha hecho pensar. [...]

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.

Loved 'Get Out,' super good from start to finish. I mean, it had everything you'd want in a movie. It was funny, scary, and it wasn't stupid. It was a smart movie but not in a fussy way. It was so good.

I think that the world is very complex. I think that the movie is a good way to ask questions. To give answers, you would write a lot of books.

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.

Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.