I like to provoke. I'm very French.

- Carine Roitfeld

Any time you have someone's first-hand account of the sheer terror that ISIS can provoke... that's powerful.

- Chuck Fleischmann

It's challenging to take on something else that is not you and make it very real and have others be able to associate with it. It's wonderful to provoke thought.

- Dash Mihok

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

- Elie Wiesel

Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.

- Frans de Waal

I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke and make something different.

- Guy Laliberte

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

- James Ellroy

If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

- Lars von Trier

I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something or both, and for that to become a part of them and work into their own lives.

- Linda Sue Park

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

- Mary J. Blige

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.

- Stephen Graham Jones

Writers should provoke disagreement.

- V. S. Naipaul