Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply. — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
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
The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock. — Werner Molders Copy Share Image
It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me. — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“There is a shock that comes so quickly and strikes so deep that the blow is internalized even before then skin feels… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
My divorce was like a death - a genuine death of commitment and love. After I got over the shock, I was… — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
When I was young, especially when I was at school, I thought couture was about big gowns, big hats (that is couture… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
The people are different in L.A. There was a time when I lived in New York and that was a bit of… — Scott Clifton Copy Share Image
The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
During World War I the Canadians were the shock troops. In many historical cases, Canadians have been very proficient at killing, and… — Joseph Boyden 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
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
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
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
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
“Bystander characters with no medical experience can be forgiven for this mistake. But hearing any kind of medical professional look at someone… — Samantha Keel Copy Share Image
But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as… — Ronald Reagan 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
Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs. — Seth MacFarlane 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
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
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
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
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. — Kristin Scott Thomas 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
The most extreme among the Brexiters are convinced they can ride the chaos and deploy the 'shock doctrine' to remake the nation… — David Olusoga 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
“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
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant. — Christine Pelosi 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
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“When you meet people sometimes they can ignite something in your bones. You feel like it an electric shock sent straight through… — Alexandria Brown Copy Share Image
