Shock quotes
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Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.
-- Aaron Hill -
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
-- Alvin Toffler -
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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
-- Alvin Toffler -
I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.
-- Amy Schumer -
Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.
-- Anderson Cooper -
Color me! Accessorize me! Shock me!
-- Anna Dello Russo -
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A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
-- Anna Freud -
I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.
-- Anna Kendrick -
Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
-- Anne Rice -
Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.
-- Annette Funicello -
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Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
-- Belinda Carlisle -
And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
-- Bob Brown -
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You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.
-- Bob Newhart -
Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.
-- Bryan Callen -
What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.
-- Bryan Cranston -
Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.
-- Camille Paglia -
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To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.
-- Carl Jung -
Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.
-- Celso Amorim -
I don't really go into shock around celebrity.
-- Chad VanGaalen -
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The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.
-- Christine Pelosi -
If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.
-- Cornel Wilde -
It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.
-- Dan Wells -
I've been on shows that go for shock value
-- Daphne Zuniga -
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I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
-- David Bailey -
When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.
-- David Levithan -
A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her.
-- David Ogilvy -
Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious
-- Declan Donnellan -
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I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.
-- Donna Rice Hughes -
I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
-- Ed Rollins -
It's good to shock. It's not good to always be careful. It's good to disturb a little.
-- Ellen von Unwerth -
If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.
-- Ethel M. Dell -
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I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
-- Eva Zeisel -
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
-- F. H. Bradley -
I can give you the cause of anaphylactic shock in a nutshell.
-- Gary Delaney -
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
-- Harold Brodkey -
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Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
-- Hayao Miyazaki -
She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.
-- J. Courtney Sullivan -
The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.
-- Jamaica Kincaid -
You often see shocks in the League Cup, even when you don’t expect them
-- Jan Mølby -
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Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.
-- Jerry Saltz -
I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay -
I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.
-- John Dominic Crossan -
It's so difficult to shock America these days.
-- Judd Apatow -
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
-- Jules Renard -
He took a moment to get over the shock, and to remind himself that this had surely been difficult for her and she was probably bracing herself for a rejection. At least he hoped she was. If she wasn't, she needed to do that straight away, because it was coming. God damn right it was coming.
-- Julianne MacLean -
Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch.
-- Kami Garcia -
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas -
My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
-- Lance Loud -
There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
-- Laura Prepon -
The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
-- Lauren Graham -
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Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.
-- Marcel Duchamp -
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.
-- Margery Allingham -
I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.
-- Maria V. Snyder -
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
-- Mary Renault -
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When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.
-- Matt Gonzalez -
Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
-- Max Planck -
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.
-- Michael Tolkin -
I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects!
-- Michelle Pfeiffer -
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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know
-- Naomi Shihab Nye -
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
-- Oscar Wilde -
Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
-- Paul D. Boyer -
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It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.
-- Paula Marantz Cohen -
I am still in shock and awe at being fired,
-- Peter Arnett -
Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.
-- R.K. Narayan -
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
-- Richard Foreman -
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Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.
-- Robert Bloch -
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
-- Robert Farrar Capon -
Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
Oh no, Nick" Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, "how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious.
-- Sarah Rees Brennan -
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Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock.
-- Scott M. Gimple -
The physical shock took away the pain of being.
-- Sebastian Faulks -
Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
-- Seth MacFarlane -
You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
-- Simon Van Booy -
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Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.
-- Sri Mulyani Indrawati -
I'm a little bit in shock, to tell you the truth.
-- Steven Levitan -
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
-- Talib Kweli -
I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!
-- Thomas Gibson -
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Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
-- Tina Turner -
Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.
-- Tom Conti -
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
-- Walter Benjamin -
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
-- Will Durst -
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I foresee death by culture shock.
-- Woody Allen -
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,
-- Yves Saint Laurent -
I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.
-- Diane Kochilas -
If somebody had said to me back in 1988 that I'd still be making music in 25 years' time, to start with I would have keeled over with shock because I wouldn't have believed them.
-- John Wesley Harding -
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What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself.
-- Sophie Ristelhueber -
Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.
-- Timo Tjahjanto -
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.
-- Roger Scruton -
I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.
-- Roman Sebrle -
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You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.
-- Haylie Duff
