When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing,… — Red Skelton Copy Share Image
That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
It was a shock to my system leaving 'The West Wing' and going to 'Psych.' I remember being like, 'What are you… — Dule Hill Copy Share Image
That's what you strive for - you strive to take your move to the next level. It's about shock value, always shock… — Crazy Legs Copy Share Image
But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
With another shock of excitement, Harry saw Sirius give James the thumbs-up. Sirius was lounging in his chair at his ease, tilting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as… — Piers Morgan Copy Share Image
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work.… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
He’s gone, Harry told himself. He’s gone. He had to keep thinking it as he washed and dressed, as though repetition would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series… — Greer Garson Copy Share Image
There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists.… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
I don't attend church because I am a Meryl Streepist and we, her disciples, have not organized a place of worship yet.… — Jasika Nicole Copy Share Image
“There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You… — Frederick Barthelme Copy Share Image
I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive… — Craig Brewer Copy Share Image
Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pieces look different every six… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
I'm not against shock and horror. In fact, I really belive in facing the dark realities of our time as the first… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home… — John Major Copy Share Image
I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
“In another study subjects waited an unknown length of time to receive a shock.12 This lack of predictability and control was so… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
“We're taking you to the hospital,' it said, 'you're going into shock. Can you tell us how you feel?' 'I feel ...'… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
“I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Without heat or shock, it can't… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“My body shook from pain, exhaustion, and the beginning of shock. I'd pay for all the powers I'd used, but the portal… — Lola Dodge Copy Share Image
The majority of my fans have been amazing & supportive. But I am in shock and ashamed of many of my 'fans'… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
“The shock of orgasm pulls you under the wave you never saw coming. It wrestles you to the point of exhaustion and… — Megan Mitcham Copy Share Image
Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law… — Byron York Copy Share Image
I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you… — Sophie Tucker Copy Share Image
