Shocking Things Quotes:

It's shocking the things we call love.

- Deb Caletti

topic: Surprise, Shocking Things

I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and we would be a part of that and we would have then not capitalism. We would have values based on human lives, not profit. We would actually transform the kinds of ways people built love and built community. It was a very shocking thing to me, out of the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, to realize that that dream - while I still believed in it - was not going to happen in the way that I had hoped.

- Amber Hollibaugh

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Dream, People, Community, Shocking Things

There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the world and right under our noses or that there are villages in Nepal where there are no children left because they have all been kidnapped for sex trafficking, or that there are generations of slaves in some countries where indentured slavery passes from generation to generation and that kids grow into adults not knowing that another world - another life - exists?

- Gillian Anderson

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Country, Sex, Children, Kidnapped, Trafficking

when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

- Rosamond Lehmann

source: Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

topic: Kindness, Two, People, Shocking Things

It's kind of interesting to experience that kind of a ride after well, essentially so many years of enjoying a career based on failures and then suddenly something clicks. The weird thing is, I never changed a thing. The process is still the process as it ever was. The fact that people decided to go and see a movie that I was in was probably the most shocking thing that I've ever been through.

- Johnny Depp

topic: Interesting, People, Kind, Shocking Things

I don't really like the way that journalism works in the UK anyway; it's all about getting the most shocking thing out of somebody and kind of twisting people's words, which isn't really journalism, as far as I'm concerned.

- Lily Allen

source: Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

topic: People, Way, Journalism, Shocking Things

I think one of the most shocking things is how little our elected officials knew about what the NSA was doing. Congress is learning from the reporting and that's staggering. Snowden and [former NSA employee] William Binney, who's also in the film as a whistleblower from a different generation, are technical people who understand the dangers.

- Laura Poitras

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Thinking, Nsa, People, Elected Officials, Different Generations

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.98, Anchor

topic: Mother, Selfless, World, My Own World, Concise

If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

- Andrew Williams

topic: Veins, Want, Wannabes, Shocking Things

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Writing, Heart, Blow, Shocking Things

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

- Robbie Coltraine

source: Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. February 18, 2004.

topic: Stupid, Thinking, Owl, Shocking Things

The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

- Frank Rich

topic: Tuesday, Politics, Lasts, Shocking Things

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

- Florence Ellinwood Allen

topic: Judging, Office, Honor, Fair Trial, Shocking Things

It's all based on saying the shocking thing. We used to have a great time going to Hollywood parties and saying 'I think George Bush is doing a great job.' We'd clear out the room. I used to love it.

- Trey Parker

topic: Jobs, Party, Thinking, Great Job, Used To Love

Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.198, Canongate Books

topic: Eye, People, Smoking, Blowing Smoke, Shocking Things

There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking things. Maybe it's because you're so proper. Your necktie is never crooked, and your shoes are always shiny. And your shirts are so starchy. Sometimes when I look at you, I want to tear off all your buttons. Or set your trousers on fire. I've so often wondered-are you ticklish, my lord?

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Fire, Shoes, Wicked, Neckties, Ticklish

All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one. But, as in their reading and arithmetic and drawing, different children proceed at different speeds. (It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.) Some small ones are terrible and fey, Utterly Heartless. Some are dear and sweet and Hardly Heartless at all.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Sweet, Children, Reading, Tall Trees, Shocking Things

This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Struggle, Eye, Dust, Slime, Shocking Things