Shock Quotes

I'm not a shock jock at all.

— Angela Yee

“You can survive any shock.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

— Harrison Ford

“Shock is a very weird thing.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

New G-shock (check).

— Bow Wow

I never dress to shock.

— Leona Lewis

Trust me...you are in for a shock.

— Ryan Seacrest

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

— Charlie Chaplin

When I win, I send shock waves through the boxing world.

— Naseem Hamed

“we all turned in shock to look at him. “Magnus,”

— Kawaii Chan

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

— Kami Garcia

It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.

— Nicole Kidman

Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock.

— Scott M. Gimple

bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

— Edward Gibbon

Shock me like an electric eel baby girl

— MGMT

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

— Audrey Hepburn

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing…

— Josh Radnor

“I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I…

— Anne Lamott

“Maybe I feel like I need to witness a good dose of human nature at its worst before I enter the real…

— Colleen Hoover

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for…

— Joyce Maynard

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks…

— Ed Rollins

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

— Jared Diamond

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less…

— George W. Bush

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame…

— David Mitchell

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived…

— Anthony Burgess

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational…

— Paul Virilio

He took a moment to get over the shock, and to remind himself that this had surely been difficult for her and…

— Julianne MacLean

“I was crying for the little girl I had been, who had withstood terrifying nightmares of death and blood and war and…

— Anonymous

The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,…

— Paul Theroux

The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our…

— Neil Postman

If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions…

— Richard Dawkins

And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and…

— Anna Quindlen

“And here's the shock -- when you risk it, when you do the right thing, when you arrive at the borders of…

— Jeanette Winterson

“In a life threatening situation, whether terrorism or a rockslide, what kills most people is slowness to react. Regular lives are so…

— Tom Wood

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of…

— Janet Frame

I loved the city, so the feeling in 2001 [election] first was shock, then (I was) nervous, then scared but then it's…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

“After a great blow, or crisis, after the first shock and then after the nerves have stopped screaming and twitching, you settle…

— Robert Penn Warren

“His father gave him a funny look as the entire spectrum of emotion usually eclipsed by control displayed instantaneously in his dark…

— Marcha A. Fox

What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.……

— Noah Richler