Quotes About Provocation

Let's bomb Fishface's house!

Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves.

Beware: If you egg people on, you'll get egg on your face.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

You've got to be stupid to heckle me - I am very equipped to win.

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

If I wanted to make a subversive record, it would be horrifying and insane.

Actress Dana Delany fantasizes about making love with two men.

Tulta munille!

They tried to get me—I got them first!

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block.

I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.

There is nothing that's off limits. If people think something is off limits, I make it my business to go make a joke about it; that's my job.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

I'd like to have a business card saying: Bruce Norris kicked your arse.

Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon