I couldn't look away. My guts wrenched with the transient…

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was…

— Horatio Nelson

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

— Anonymous

“What will happen then?" Ash stepped closer. His fingers came up to brush the hair from my face, sending an electric shock through me…

— Julie Kagawa

Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two…

— Haruki Murakami

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.

— Joy Behar

“ I’m in public, in a club in Florence, snogging a boy who I met only a couple of hours ago, so madly that…

— Lauren Henderson

“There is a birch-rod kept behind the looking-glass in the schoolroom, and every now and then it is brought out and used, for no…

— Daniele Varè

“The subject of one experiment is a rat that receives mild electric shocks (roughly equivalent to the static shock you might get from scuffing…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Attempting to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism. This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos.…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Thetans, Hubbard explained, existed long before the beginning of time and had drifted through the eons, picking up and then discarding physical bodies as…

— Janet Reitman

“A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?’ and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward…

— Stephen Scobie

“A few years ago, Tor Wager, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, wanted to figure out why placebos were so effective. His experiment was brutally…

— Jonah Lehrer

“I'll practice the new me in front of guests. I kind of like some of them, the guests. One has a soft, soft voice…

— Carol Emshwiller

“Her hair is troublesome and curly ... It falls in long, black strands, but each strand has a gentle, complicated undulation travelling through it,…

— Amit Chaudhuri