Quotes of: Provoked Keyword

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.

Tim Crouch

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

Thomas More

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Noam Chomsky

Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses.

The Orphan Factory

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.

Brad Bird

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

Damon Lindelof

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Spike Lee

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

Harold E. Varmus

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

Criss Jami

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

Juliette Binoche

Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

Barbra Streisand

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Henry David Thoreau

Sir Wilfrid: I am constantly surprised that women's hats do not provoke more murders.

Witness for the Prosecution

Bad Religion's tradition has always been to try and provoke people but hopefully lead them to a better sense of who they are and what they stand for. That's supposed to make them feel better.

Greg Graffin

New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.

Willow Bay

And it says something about our level of disassociation, that we can provoke these wars abroad but we're not allowed to see people get killed as a result.

Alex Cox

I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn't expect.

Brenda Brathwaite

I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration.

Petra Remes

People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

The Captive & The Fugitive

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Keith Haring