Quotes About Provocation

More often than not, a report that a cow was about to be slaughtered, or that a religious procession carrying Hindu idols was interfering with mosque prayers, set off stone-throwing or worse.

liked to call his golden rules: Never poke a rattler, never get in the path of stampeding animals, and never, ever prod a man liable to exact payment for the affront in lead.

Christopher Isherwood tried to trick a good topic into rising from his unconscious by irritating it, "deliberately writing nonsense until it intervenes, as it were, saying, 'All right, you idiot, let me fix this.

Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

pissing on the altar is still a way of paying homage to the Church

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

Incredible the mass labor of the fat ugly masturbators of the 82nd AIRBORNE DIVISION! Wow have I seen gallons and gallons of sperm spilled, wasted, in the nights of North Carolina, and tons and tons of sheets stained, yellowed by the juice of these guys of the 82nd! Kilos and kilos! Piles and piles! Truckloads and truckloads of sheets full of vicious and doubtful traces and circles.

As athletes, when you find something that gets to someone you have to press their buttons.

Everybody's calling me out. Why do you think everybody wants to fight me? I'm the money fight.

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

I would love to make my entire career as the guy who did not get cheered. Of course, I'm still going to get cheered by people who think they're smart, and that's fine - they're acknowledging how good I am at my job - but I don't want cheers; I want the boos. I love it.

Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.

I'm out to prove that a guy 55 years old, with one foot in the grave, can play with the best woman in the world and maybe beat her. It'll be a big boost for men's superiority.

I want violence. I want punching in the face. I'm disappointed in Trump supporters for not punching enough.

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

People want to see something they're not sure they should be seeing.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

There is no doubt I have offended many people. No doubt, also, that I have blasphemed. I sometimes try to offend as part of my routine - after all, the essence of humour, even in a child, is the effort to shock and surprise.

The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.