When Mahavishnu came out in '71, the unbelievable reaction…

I want to be strong and empowered. I want to shock everybody.

— Vanessa Hudgens

I go to mass every Sunday, which is a shock to everybody.

— Roger Ailes

Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this one was…

— Larry Coker

The fact I was going to have to start injecting insulin came as a real shock to me.

— Lindsay Hoyle

I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.

— Charles Foster Johnson

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

— Lena Dunham

Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

— Cilla Black

Every day, I discover something utterly unbelievable when I play.

— John McLaughlin

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's…

— Vince Gilligan

“Lay not the blame on me, O sailor, but on the winds. By nature I am as calm and safe as the land itself,…

— Aesop

When I first heard that a comet was going to hit Jupiter, my reaction was, 'Eh. So what? Jupiter's huge. Comets are small. And…

— Heidi Hammel

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

— Kevin Brownlow

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew…

— John Tesh

I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.

— Jim Hodges