Quotes About Provocation

Now this was the first time I ever dumped a bowl of beans on Doolittle Lynn, but it wouldn't be the last. They became my weapon of choice. If beans was around when I got good and mad, you can bet he'd run.

Stop... toying with me. When I toy with you, you'll know it-and enjoy it.

What the fuck, babe.

You killed Rice Wheeler, he said, the Panhandle gunman. He should have stayed in the Panhandle, I said.

Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.

Shut up, Dixie cup

That's the Little Dipper. Hey, Armpit, what sign are you?" "This is my sign," Armpit said, and gave him the finger.

Amy was much offended that her overtures of peace had been repulsed, and began to wish she had not humbled herself, to feel more injured than ever, and to plume herself on her superior virtue in a way which was particularly exasperating.

You aroused his . . . that surely was very indiscreet.

white raiders attack their own kind just so it can be blamed on the Cheyenne." Ansley

Love me or I will kick you very hard.

You're a hidjus old pollywobble!

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.

What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish? [Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason , June 23, 2006]

A poet's work', he answers. 'To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.' And if rivers of blood flow from the cuts his verses inflict, then they will nourish him.

People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.

We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

Stiff, huh? I think seeing you roll around on the floor in that tight little outfit accomplished that.

A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it.

I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'

The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.

one man may insult fifty—it is the privilege of weakness.