Quotes About Thought-provoking

Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

I've always believed that no subject is off-limits as long as you can find a way to make it significant, thoughtful, and interesting.

What I also love about Lorrie Moore stories is they take me a long time to read. They're not easy for me because each sentence, I feel like, is so rich and dense, it just sends me off in a thousand directions.

Good writing does not fail or succeed on the strength of its ability to persuade. Not the kind of writing that you'll find in this book, anyway. 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 someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be. from intro to What The Dog Saw

In function, Jesus's aphorisms are very much like his parables—provocative and invitational forms of speech. They provoke thought, lead people to reconsider their taken-for-granted assumptions, and invite them to see life differently.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

ruins." A flush spread up

she seemed to me an intriguing soul

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

From this", says Schrödinger, "I learned many things, but not religion." His favourite question was, "Sir, do you really believe that?

I hope I have important things to say.

I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.

The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

I create doubt in the reader's mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things that are not obvious.

One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.

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.

I like the gray movies. I don't know if audiences always... it makes them work a little harder. And they have to work hard in 'Hoover.'

When I read comics, they were dense stories. When you put them down, there was a sense of having gotten a great deal from them.

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

Hamlet is a little daunting.

Filozofia nu are voie s? fie edificatoare.