I hated Shallow Grave, that movie made me angry. And I hated Happiness. I generally hate movies that use extreme violence or… — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Anything that you can shock somebody with. The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles… — Jaden Smith Copy Share Image
And so out of the blue the call did come and said, you know, "Would you be - would you consider turning… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
“When the initial pain of shock wore off, I thought it strange I should feel the pain of his slap in my… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've… — Melanie Chisholm Copy Share Image
The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
However dangerous might be the shock of a comet, it might be so slight, that it would only do damage at the… — Pierre Louis Maupertuis Copy Share Image
It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something… — Leo Kadanoff Copy Share Image
Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
"There is no analysis here," the most brutal of them wrote. Now I wonder if my papers lacked critical thought, or if… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“You scare the shit out of me, Logan.” I said, watching as Logan’s face flashed with shock. “You know me on a… — S.K. Hartley Copy Share Image
When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River one time in my life,… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
“Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I'm always working on something new and while I'm working, I'm absorbed with my characters, their conflicts,my language and settings. I'm in… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me...… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The Gospel comes in power and the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. If you call upon the name of the Lord, God… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to… — Anne Beatts Copy Share Image
![“And so out of the blue the call did come and said, you know, "Would you be - would you consider turning this [The Starter Wife] now into a series?" And so obviously that was a shock. And all the conversations began. And, you know, and now we're here. Now we're finishing up our last episode right…” quote by Debra Messing](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/651/debra-messing-8824_began_and-so-out-of-the-blue-the-call-did-come_2836763.jpg)
![“Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.” quote by Stephen Mallinder](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/627/stephen-mallinder-17708_80s_going-there-japan-in-the-early-80s-was-q_2872312.jpg)
![“[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.” quote by Walker Percy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3f1/walker-percy-1958_action_in-art-you-are-telling-the-reader-or-the_116938.jpg)
