#provoke

I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed! ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#been #booze #caffeine #drink #even

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. ↗

— Ernst Fischer

#dreams #duty #literature #moral #moral duty

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#am #classic #clothes #different #different ways

Please, please don't try hurting me, my friends. I wouldn't forgive myself If I had to kill you all. ↗

— Toba Beta

#hurt #kill #provoke #forgiveness

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#enough #forever #itself #me #measure

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. ↗

— Edward Norton

#best #documentary #films #kind #narrative

Writers should provoke disagreement. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#provoke #should #writers

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#america #any #before #disease #early

Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#amazed #attack #been #documented #how

If you find yourself easily provoked, then just change the channel. ↗

— Toba Beta

#channel #life-lessons #mindset #provoke #stay-in-tune