Shock Quotes

It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I haven't anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.

When reason and unreason come into contact,
an electrical shock occurs.
This is called polemics.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

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

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

I foresee death by culture shock.

Color me! Accessorize me! Shock me!

I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.

It's good to shock. It's not good to always be careful. It's good to disturb a little.

bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

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.

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch.

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

I can give you the cause of anaphylactic shock in a nutshell.

The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

There's nothing you could say that would shock me.

Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

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.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

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.

Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.

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.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

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.

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.

I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.

Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.