The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start… — Nigel Godrich Copy Share Image
Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I… — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
“It is simply not possible to live in a state of acute fear and shock for more than a couple of weeks,… — Sarah Moss Copy Share Image
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
That shock that travels up your spine, through your body, and doesn't let you move. All you can do it nearly die… — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up,… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Beautiful Hannah. If you were mine, I'd lay you on silk sheets and wrap you up in ropes of pearls, and feed… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
There once was a man name Barack, Whose re-election came as a shock. He raised the taxes I pay, And then turned… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
You would think the fury of aerial bombardment would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on… — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Having an identity at work separate from an identity at home means that the work role can help absorb some of the… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
People have made sure of that, that you can't shock anybody anymore. It's not just because of movies and TV. It's because… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure.… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything…I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp, Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp, Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
“I was just about to open the door, when it opened up right in front of me. And there stood my parents.… — August Westman Copy Share Image
“People had warned me about the culture shock of going to Africa. Nothing prepared me for the culture shock of coming the… — Richard Dowden Copy Share Image
For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going… — John Lone Copy Share Image
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