I thought I could get everyone's attention by coming up with something that's provocative.
I like to be provocative.
Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it.
I do not want to answer provocative question.
The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.
Nothing I do is salacious or provocative or shocking for the sake of that.
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.
I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.
Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.
I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.
There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.
I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.
So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
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've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.
To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.
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.
I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.
Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.
Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
