Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.
I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.
I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.
I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.
Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.
I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
I occasionally watch provocative videos.
Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.
Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists. It destroys them.
Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought.
Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.
I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.
I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.
I don't know why he [Darren Star] is so good at writing for women. Maybe he just likes women. I'm not quite sure what the magic recipe is, other than he just knows how to entertain an audience, and he knows when to be gooey and sweet, and when to be provocative and naughty.
I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.
The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations,. . a provocative and original philosophical genius.
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
Newton's theory is not 'not right', it just does not cover all distances. Contrary to popular belief, theories in science are not proven wrong, they are just replaced by more complete and convenient theories. To sound provocative, even the geocentric theory was never "proven" wrong, it is just not as convenient as the heliocentric theory, since it requires endless epicycles.