Shock Quotes · Page 10

“The moon is out all day. I don't want to shock you.”

— Bill Nye

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

— Anne Rice

“I’m a little worried about Edward… Can vampires go into shock?”

— Stephenie Meyer

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

— Augustus Hare

“When our eyes met, I felt a jolt in my soul, an electric shock.”

— Anonymous

All the success has come as a huge shock, because most famous people you see just seem born into that world.

— Rhod Gilbert

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

— Julia Child

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of…

— Yann Martel

Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.

— Daniel Tosh

“I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Without heat or shock, it can't…

— Mark Helprin

Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer…

— Jeanette Winterson

I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman.…

— Ilona Andrews

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who…

— Michel Houellebecq

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home…

— John Major

“In another study subjects waited an unknown length of time to receive a shock.12 This lack of predictability and control was so…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world…

— Julia Leigh

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long,…

— Anonymous

“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

I got Twin Peaks, and the part was basically written for me, which was a really big shock. I think everything really…

— Sherilyn Fenn

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and…

— Learned Hand

“Shock was giving way to a nervous impulse to laugh. Ken his family? Not likely; and how should he explain that he…

— Diana Gabaldon

The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The…

— Michael Pollan

“War?" Something cold touched my cheek, and I glanched up to see snowflakes swirling in a lightning-riddled sky. It was eerily beautiful,…

— Julie Kagawa

That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“Denial exists when three beliefs intersect: 1. It cannot happen. 2. It cannot happen to you. 3. It cannot happen to you now.”

— Johnnie Dent Jr

I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.

— Naomi Klein

“The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond…

— Victor Hugo

The shock of somebody saying something to you that you know, but that you haven't acknowledged is a really severe, intense thing.

— Taylor Russell

New York was my first stop after school because I thought Los Angeles would be too much of culture shock.

— Matthew Bomer

Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.

— Bernie Sanders

“I was neither glad nor unhappy to see her, but maybe that's what shock does, because I was surprised, that I will…

— Alan Sillitoe

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.

— Thomas Browne

“Am I really going to die?” Cimil’s face lit up with shock. “Jeez. What kind of goddess do you think I am?…

— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff