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Quotes About Provocation

little about your work, tease and titillate with alluring, even contradictory comments, then stand back and let others try to make sense of it all.
~ Robert Greene
The secret enemy, though, will react with anger. Any strong emotion and you will know that there's something boiling under the surface. Often the best way to get people to reveal themselves is to provoke tension and argument.
~ Robert Greene
What is the meaning of this gross outrage?
~ Kenneth Grahame
I intend to make you scream for me, Riley.
~ Keri Arthur
I challenge that loose-assed prick, otherwise known as Moss, to a fight.
~ Keri Arthur
i gotta stop saying how stupid could you be? I'm beginning to feel like people are taking as a challenge
~ Kevin Hart
Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?
~ Kevin Smith
Who rebels with mathematics?
~ Khaled Hosseini
I'd watch your mouth, he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID.The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night in the emergency room with a drink umbrella jammed up his nose.
~ Kim Harrison
Oh, I'm sorry. Did I interrupt some sort of dominance foreplay?
~ Kim Harrison
Bug? You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than me? Poop ice cream cones, do you? Call me a bug! Rachel, let me do him now.
~ Kim Harrison
Hey," the other said, coming to life. "You're supposed to be in jail." Al grinned at him, his white-gloved grip tightening on the wooden handle, which was intricately carved in the shape of a naked, writhing woman. Nice. "And your momma wanted you to have a brain," he said, yanking the door open and slamming it into the guy's face.
~ Kim Harrison
In a smooth, unhurried motion, Jenks reached out and slapped him. "Seems to me you should pull the brains out of your ass.
~ Kim Harrison
Listen to me, you broken-fanged, moss-wiped excuse for a back-drafted blood bag!" Jenks said, a silver-edged red dust slipping from him.
~ Kim Harrison
Shove it up your ass and make a breath mint out of it!
~ Kim Harrison
Chubi, rhymes with booby, which you don't have, or doodie, which your face looks like, she said smugly, leaning back and making her chair squeak.
~ Kim Harrison
Eloy turned to her, his lip curling when he saw her face, but I hadn't won anything in our verbal pissing match. "Can we please have some blood?" Winona awkwardly flipped him off with her thick fingers, and I almost applauded.
~ Kim Harrison
Bug?" Jenks shouted, incensed. "You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than me? Poop ice cream cones, do you?
~ Kim Harrison
You do the damnedest things in order to rile yourself up. Most people settle for doing it in an elevator, but not you. No, you have to make sure it's a vampire you're playing kissy-face with.
~ Kim Harrison
Bug!" Francis exclaimed. "You're a—" His words choked off with a rasp as I jerked my arm. "Bug?" Jenks shouted, incensed. "You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than me? Poop ice cream cones, do you? Call me a bug! Rachel, let me do him now!
~ Kim Harrison
Drab? Soldier yelled. I'll give you drab. Beat her, would you? Beat my wife? I'll feed your head to the vultures, you snotty little hamster with your golden pelt and buttery looks!
~ Kim Hunter
You bloody old towser-faced boot-faced totem-pole on a crap reservation.
~ Kingsley Amis
My friend Eileen once said about Tom 'I'd kick him out of bed - to fuck him on the floor.
~ Kirk Read
Wild ideas popped up again in my head. What if I quietly went over and cut off the mooring ropes on one of the ships? What if I suddenly cried fire?
~ Knut Hamsun