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Quotes About Provocation

Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
~ Salvador Dali
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
~ Salvador Dali
Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.
~ Salvador Dali
Creo en el humanismo del ojo del culo.
~ Salvador Dali
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
~ Salvador Dali
I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.
~ Samuel Butler
What makes all doctrines plain and clear?About two hundred pounds a year.And that which was proved true before,Prove false again? Two hundred more.
~ Samuel Butler
What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again Two hundred more.
~ Samuel Butler
I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.
~ Samuel Pepys
Very. It was supposed to be a white kid on the roof and a nigger that got shot. So they started a riot.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Surrender? Oh, Lord! First need. Now surrender. She swatted his hand away, but not before his knuckles grazed a nipple and ignited a wildfire of sensual
~ Sandra Hill
She sighed. "Have I ever told you that you're impossible?" His smile was wonderfully wicked. "Have I ever told you that there is no such thing as impossible?
~ Sandra Marton
Someone says something you consider problematic. At first you try not to say anything. But they keep saying something. So maybe you respond, carefully, perhaps. You say why you think what they have said is problematic. You might be speaking quietly, but you are beginning to feel wound up, recognizing with frustration that you are being wound up by someone who is winding you up. The feminist killjoy appears here: when she speaks, she seems wound up. I appear here. This is my history: wound up.
~ Sara Ahmed
Let's punk this bitch. - Nisha
~ Sara Shepard
Playing on her femininity and making him feel uncomfortable seemed highly effective.
~ Sara Sheridan
Look at you!Defiant,fiery,fearless,your face flushed,your skin glowing with anger,your body suffused with an energy i could touch-my sweet sexy Ellen,you`re provoking me even now." -Addan de Torre
~ Sara Wood
One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"
~ Quentin Tarantino
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
~ T. S. Eliot
If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.
~ Ted Nugent
I want to start saying bad words all the time!
~ Chelsea Handler
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.
~ Eduard Hanslick
I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow.
~ Lisa Marie Presley
Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.
~ Mort Sahl