Quotes About Provocation

When we made 'Night of the Living Dead,' we got riddled. There was this famous article Roger Ebert wrote just blasting the film because he had gone to see it at some screening where there were all these kids in the audience. I don't know why that happened. We didn't make the movie for kids.

The real bombs are my books, not me.

I enjoy seeing how many boos I can get.

I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.

If I know my showboating bothers you, I'll keep doing it. If playing with your mind is part of the arsenal, and I know it works, then I'm going to continue doing it.

I don't think there will ever be a GG box set.

They put everything that's wrong with boxing in one room, did everything that's wrong with boxing in that room, and gave birth to Adrien Broner.

I try to keep it sweet, but trash-talking is fun, and people want to see if a brash kid like me can live up to his patter.

My name is Brian and I am a troll. An internet troll.

Bring them on.

I have a very good talent at finding out exactly what it is about yourself that you don't like and then keep bringing it up.

I broke things to get attention.

People are just way too sensitive. You couldn't have a show like 'Archie Bunker' on TV. People would go crazy; they would lose their minds.

I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.

I want you to tell me how bad I suck and how I'm going to get knocked out and how I've been lucky my whole career. That's fine. All day.

Any man can take a sucker punch, but if you get slapped, it's other repercussions to that.

Nate Diaz sucks.

Kimbo Slice sucks. He's terrible.

The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.

So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.

Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

Spurgeon used his wit to provoke laughter in private and in public. He said in one of his sermons, "If by a laugh I can make men see the folly of an error better than in any other way, they shall laugh.