Quotes About Provoking

You're a big girl's blouse

Her smile was provoking. Where had she learned to smile like that? The woman who arrived at his castle wouldn't smile like that. She'd been a furled rosebud, fragrant with potential. This Sidonie was a full-blown flower, sweet-scented and luscious.

What happened to you? Did you finally annoy someone enough to have them beat the shit out of you?

J'éprouve un dégoût physique pour l'humanité ordinaire ; c'est d'ailleurs la seule qui existe. Et la fantaisie me prend parfois d'approfondir ce dégoût, de même qu'on peut provoquer un vomissement pour soulager son envie de vomir.

There is nothing wrong with socialism or communism but they are irrelevant now. Some intellectual terrorists are provoking people in the name of these ideologies just like some religious terrorists go and demolish mosques and want to build temples in their place.

He pulled away the glove, and at the first glimpse of her fragile, white hand, all thoughts of negotiation fled. I don't see how matters could become worse, he muttered. I am already besotted with a needle-tongued, conceited, provoking ape leader of a lady. Her head jerked up. Besotted? You're nothing like it. Vengeful is more like it. Spiteful.

Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us unwilling to criticize ideas that are increasingly maladaptive and patently ridiculous.

It's dark out, you autistic fuck.

The best things in life are . . . Annoying.

People know excessive consumption of anything is bad for health. By imposing a ban on something, we are, in a way, provoking them to do it.

I still believe that education is about provoking some kind of original, creative thought.

I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

I like to tease people. I hate when people do it to me, though.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials.

I like to do something that gets a real reaction from people.

Oh, blameless people are always the most exasperating.

With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext.

Besides the bore condescending, who, whether good-natured or ill-natured, is a most provoking animal—there is the bore facetious, an insufferable creature, always laughing, but with whom you can never laugh. And there is another exotic variety—the vive la bagatelle bore of the ape kind—who imitate men of genius. Having early been taught that there is nothing more delightful than the unbending of a great mind, they set about continually to unbend the bow in company.

By provoking separate studies of monumental male nudes in self-consciously handsome postures, he established the curriculum for generations of imitators.

The alt-right is working hard to cloak its desire to create chaos in the streets as free speech. They say they want to air their views, but it's about provoking violent reactions. We all can easily see that this is not about free speech.

Provoking Thought & Inspiring the Imagination

Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking?

Perhaps I was too saucy & provoking.