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Quotes About Provocative

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.
~ Helen Suzman
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
~ Salvador Dali
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
~ Diane Arbus
Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
~ Salman Rushdie
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
~ Hannah Arendt
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
~ Paul Cezanne
I'm going to get him to sign my boobs. With his tongue.
~ Rowan Coleman
When mannequins have nipples, it's a cold-hearted world.
~ Roy Blount, Jr.
My cock doesn't talk politics.
~ S. A. Sachs
If you can't fuck me while I read, fuck off.
~ S.X. Rosenstock
I am not seditious. I do not want to stir up people's ideas and feelings. If I take off the blouse of culture and society, then it is naked. I do not try to put clothes back on, because that is not my job.
~ Saadat Hasan Manto
She's wearing character shoes for dancing and the combination of high heels with tight terry-cloth shorts makes her look like a teen prostitute in a TV movie of the week. It's a good look.
~ Marc Acito
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.
~ Marcus J. Borg
Jesus also offers an alternative wisdom. As a wisdom teacher, he is more like Lao Tzu or the Buddha than he is like a teacher of conventional wisdom.39 The basis for my judgment is twofold. The first is the sheer weight of wisdom teaching attributed to Jesus. Most of his teaching is in the form of memorable short sayings (aphorisms) and provocative short stories (parables), both classic wisdom forms.
~ Marcus J. Borg
There was nothing humble in his gaze. Nothing brotherly, either. It was the kind of look that made Sililli's hackles rise. The look of a young animal, inflamed by Sarai's beauty and heavy with desire.
~ Marek Halter
If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.
~ Margaret Atwood
Penises," I said thoughtfully. "Them again.
~ Margaret Atwood
Well. Its the penises.
~ Margaret Atwood
She prefers the more dramatic shows where everyone's getting kidnapped or raped or shut up in a dark hole, and you aren't supposed to laugh at it. You're supposed to be upset, the way you'd be if it was happening to you. Being upset is a warmer, close-up feeling, not a chilly distant feeling like laughing at people.
~ Margaret Atwood
Yes, the thought-experiment penises can get out of control
~ Margaret Atwood
Girls, when you walk down the street, just stay nasty. Please stay nasty for me because that's how I freak out. So stay nasty and be nasty and have a beautiful time.
~ Ol' Dirty Bastard
Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
~ Sam Kinison
I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
~ David LaChapelle
Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.
~ Mika