A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the… — Eleanor Clark Copy Share Image
When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
Lucy swayed in shock. A gust of wind moaned through the conservatory and blew out all but one of her candles. Simon… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
“For what seemed a long time Mat knelt there with his father's dead wrist in his hand, while his mind arrived and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences,… — Allen Klein Copy Share Image
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it... — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
I'm going to give the people what they want. Sensation, horror, shock. Send them out in the streets to tell their friends… — Crane Wilbur Copy Share Image
In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock.… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it... Either… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
... we banked around until we found a rainbow in the dark. It was on this occasion that I discovered that Granuaile… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel. — Horace Copy Share Image
I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion. — Tara Lipinski Copy Share Image
My friend Ray Comfort has produced a powerful piece of media that leaves a lasting mark on your heart and mind. '180'… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
