Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think that people are having to do like really crazy things to shock people now, to get people's attention and it… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's… — Chris O'Donnell 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
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
Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion.… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country… — Arthur Frommer Copy Share Image
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms.… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without… — Peter Viereck Copy Share Image
People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You’re far more likely to see a naked woman than a naked man. It’s only [seen as] rude because the rest of… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
At the shock of a joke, everything disappears but the present moment. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The problem is that, in a world of floating exchange rates, as Italy was before the euro, if one country is subjected… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ...… — Philip Arthur Fisher Copy Share Image
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son.… — Joseph Stefano 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 World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic… — Jan Karon 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
