Quotes About Provocation

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

With the Germs, every night's a little mini-riot, bottles flying at my head.

I'm very fond of drugs.

Groves is a fool. Groves is a fake. I will never let him belittle me like he's done with Carl Froch.

Rob Ford is a jabroni.

It's boxing. It's about getting people interested. If I didn't say some stupid things from time to time, there wouldn't be that many people interested in me. But I let my fists do the talking when the bell rings.

Rondeau En chiant l'autre hier senti La gabelle qu'à mon cul dois; L'odeur fut autre que cuidois: J'en fus du tout empuanti O si quelqu'un eût consenti M'amener une qu'attendois En chiant! Car je lui eusse assimenti Son trou d'urine à mon lourdois; Cependant eût avec ses doigts, Mon trou de merde garanti, En chiant!

The fool that willingly provokes a woman, has made himself another evil angel and a new hell to which all other torments are but mere pastime...

Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode!

I poke nothing at you except words. I do it without fear of offending because I have learned that you have no ears.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

Technology breeds anarchy. It distributes these tools at random. And with them goes the provocation for violence. The ability to make and use savage destroyers falls inevitably into the hands of smaller and smaller groups until at last the group is a single individual." Moneo

If you ever say anything good about Oliver Cromwell they'll all hit you.

I'll cut him in two—with the whip," he shouted. "I will, I will, I say I will, for a fact. He wouldn't fight, hey? I'll give um all the fight he wants, nasty, mangy cur. If he won't fight he won't eat. I'm going to get the butcher's bull pup and I'll put um both in a bag and shake um up. I will, for a fact, and I guess Alec will fight. Come along, Mister Grannis," and he took the old Englishman away.

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac

I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills Just before dawn An' knock the little jockeys Off the rich people's lawn An' before they get up I'll be gone, I'll be gone Before they get up I'll be knocking the jockeys off the lawn

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

Ich glaube, man sollte überhaupt nur noch solche Bücher lesen, die einen beißen und stechen. Wenn das Buch, das wir lesen, uns nicht mit einem Faustschlag auf den Schädel weckt, wozu lesen wir dann das Buch? Ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.

If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.

Acho que devemos ler apenas os tipos de livros que nos ferem ou esfaqueiam. Se o livro que estamos lendo não nos acorda com um golpe na cabeça, para que estamos lendo?

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, What are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to.

It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.