When I played the Shins, I changed someone's life. When I play Belle and Sebastian in a pivotal scene in my next… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“His eyes did not do anything that shock normally describes. No snapping, no slapping, no jolt. Those things happen when you wake… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
“Robert Hughes, Time magazines's art critic, told him on the phone that after he saw the planes flying over SoHo he had… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words… — Maria McCann Copy Share Image
I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give… — John Kapelos Copy Share Image
Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical… — Paolo Di Canio Copy Share Image
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an… — John Sherman Cooper Copy Share Image
I stand by everything I said. I absolutely can defend my material, and I take issue with people who say, "It's just… — David Cross Copy Share Image
“She stared at Thomas, her large eyes wide, her delicate mouth open in shock. Did she really think he wouldn’t come for… — Amber Lynn Perry Copy Share Image
Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted… — Ben Fong-Torres Copy Share Image
It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that… — Suki Kim Copy Share Image
All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“ You’re in shock. You can’t afford to be in shock. Two parts of himself were having a conversation. You were probably… — Jack Grimwood Copy Share Image
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even… — Wilson Bryan Key Copy Share Image
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies… — Joshua Leonard Copy Share Image
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock.… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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