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Quotes About Provocation

We weave our real lives into our WWE lives. We just look at what's happening in our lives, and what can we do? What's the most annoying - as a bad guy, as a villain, what's the thing we can do to make people hate us?
~ The Miz
I think it's just in my nature to irritate people and push things as far as I can. It's really benefited me in WWE.
~ Baron Corbin
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
~ Bob Feller
Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
~ Iggy Pop
Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
~ Don Rickles
Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.
~ Michael Gambon
We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.
~ Paul Haggis
It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
~ George W. Bush
Bad Religion's tradition has always been to try and provoke people but hopefully lead them to a better sense of who they are and what they stand for. That's supposed to make them feel better.
~ Greg Graffin
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
~ Jean Genet
When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
~ Rachel Perry
If you've got some to say to Ric Flair, you come say it to me, and I'll make the translation.
~ Roddy Piper
Yo no puedo enseñarle nada a nadie, tan sólo puedo incitarle a pensar
~ Socrates
Miguel: We've only gone over 100x! Mika: K—gonna roc!! Billy: Glad ur babysitting, dumbass. U know how 2 shoot, right? Mika: Screw u! Kevin: Cut the crap—stay focused treat us like animals we'll show them animals Mika: Hear that! Miguel: Payback a bitch!
~ Sophie Jordan
You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.
~ SPIRO AGNEW
Next its gonna be jump off a cliff day.
~ Squidward
I don't write things to shock people, necessarily, but sometimes, when making an argument… Let me put it this way: some people go out into a field of wheat and they'll pick something– just one thing that they like. However, other people will drive a thresher through there. Sometimes, if I have a choice, I'll just drive the thresher through. Sometimes I think that's what's called for...
~ Stanley Crouch
A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.
~ Stefan Collini
the criminals, the warmongers must be the other fellows; we had taken up arms in self-defense against a villainous and crafty enemy, who had "attacked" peaceful Austria and Germany without the slightest provocation.
~ Stefan Zweig
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
~ Stendhal
Fils de putain
~ Stephanie Bond
Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made disease.
~ Viera Scheibner
What happens when you broadcast the truth is you piss everyone off!
~ Milton William Cooper
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
~ Tertullian