Provokers Research Quotes & Sayings

When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people's, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape you do not recognise and do not believe in - what you are left with is something approximating the truth of your own conception. — Zadie Smith

You probably have the ability to get what you want. And you likely have everything you need to be completely satisfied. But do you also have the ability to want what you've got? That just may be one of the most important questions you will ever answer. — Steve Goodier

Accepting new challenges makes me come alive. — Jake T. Austin

Besides all that, she's hilarious and warm and knows when I need a hug, and just how long the hug needs to be for me to not feel like crying anymore. — Tyler Oakley

Why do you care so badly that I live, if while alive, I am already dead? — Monica Sanz

I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge. — Joan Rivers

A lot of people move around in life chronically ashamed of how they look, or how they feel, or what they said, or what they did. It's like a permanent adolescent concern. Adolescence is when you're permanently concerned about what other people think of you. — Jon Ronson

Error itself may be happy chance. — Alfred North Whitehead

The definition of a thing includes its efficient cause; and since God is the Primal Cause, He cannot be defined, or described by a partial definition. A quality, whether psychical, physical, emotional, or quantitative, is always regarded as something distinct from its substratum; — Maimonides

It's possible that I couldn't handle the truth, but I sure wouldn't mind fondling it to find out. — Jarod Kintz

I try to be able for life to happen to me. — Bill Murray

So far, designing is the most exciting thing. Ive done I have a vision of what I want the clothes to look like in my mind and its fun to see it come alive on paper. — Kim Kardashian