Controversy Quotations

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

I like controversy. The more controversial it gets, the more interesting it is.

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

People like controversy because that's what sells.

My intention... isn't to create controversy.

You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

It becomes easier to handle controversies when you are a part of the film industry. I just take them with a smile.

I want to get physical, let's get into physical, let me hear your body talk, your body talk.

Suicide is the only way out.

In the midnight hour, I can feel your power.

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

The unknowable creates the greatest controversies.

Short people got no reason to live.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.

My books have all generated controversy.

Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

I am used to controversies.

I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.

I don't have time to think about the false controversy,

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.

The media will make a controversy out of anything, if they can.

Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I'm shaking inside.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.

Jew me, sue me, everybody do me.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.