Shock Quotes · Page 17

“If Zed had not had witnesses he would have given her the shock of her life by kissing that furious look off…

— Joss Stirling

The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any…

— Anthony Horowitz

This may shock you, but the most important person in your life is you. You are meant to be 'full of yourself.

— Alexandra Stoddard

I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been…

— Jim Gaffigan

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

— Julian Barnes

Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

— Camille Paglia

“I couldn't look away. My guts wrenched with the transient impact, like walking through a humming electric shock.”

— S.J. Lomas

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

— J. Michael Straczynski

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived…

— Anthony Burgess

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame…

— David Mitchell

It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and…

— Sean Booth

...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He…

— Douglas Adams

You don't do things for shock value anymore, because that's not even the language of today. At least, that's not what interests…

— Italo Zucchelli

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the…

— Shirley Jackson

The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,…

— Paul Theroux

The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our…

— Neil Postman

You guys didn't really think you could go off on a party weekend without me, did you? Especially here of all places—"…

— Richelle Mead

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as…

— Jodi Picoult

They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for…

— Patricia Highsmith

“The throbbing in her jaw brought her back. The sky outside was brightening, the morning light highlighting the horrible mess in front…

— J.T. Ellison

Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian…

— Steve Jobs

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be…

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV…

— Marshall McLuhan

Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because…

— Cassandra Clare

This pain is real, I can feel it coursing through my body, I can see the blood but eventually the shock overwhelms…

— Rebecca

Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him, full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state…

— Cassandra Clare

People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

— Marilyn Manson

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

— Lena Dunham

I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.

— Ai Weiwei

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

— Talib Kweli

The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

— David Sedaris

“Terror had them all for a moment, and it ravaged them, and when it was finished, shock had its way with them,…

— Dean F. Wilson

And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

— Anita Shreve

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

— Jerry Saltz

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him…

— Cyril Connolly

The first time I saw a picture of Elvis - I was in a state of shock, because I couldn't believe that…

— Gottfried Helnwein

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.

— Ruth Warrick

The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.

— Peter Drucker

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

— Alvin Toffler