A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's… Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell Copy Share Image
Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best. — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
“The new science will be a manifestation of ancient technologies. It will come in sudden, humans will experience technological shock.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“It is always a shock to meet again someone whom you have not seen for a long time but who has been… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
He took a moment to get over the shock, and to remind himself that this had surely been difficult for her and… — Julianne MacLean Copy Share Image
“I was crying for the little girl I had been, who had withstood terrifying nightmares of death and blood and war and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of 'Scum.' All… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. The technique is: Just feel… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up. Sirius was lounging in his chair at his ease, tilting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a… — Mike D Copy Share Image
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions. — Jiang Zemin Copy Share Image
The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant. — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
“WHAT A SHOCK WHEN THEY TELL YOU IT WON'T HURT AND YOU ALMOST TURN INSIDE OUT WHEN THEY BEGIN.” — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The first time I saw Istvan Szabo's 'Mephisto,' I came out and I was in shock. I was shaking. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
