I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to.… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as… — Michael Kumhof Copy Share Image
I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes. — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
We're going to be surprised when we discover that things in Heaven are normal and natural, much like this life. Of course,… — David Berg 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
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
I love travelling, but I have to admit I didn't initially take to Agra in India. As soon as you arrive, someone… — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
I think that in school I was really shy. And even today when people meet me they are shock to see just… — Matt Shultz Copy Share Image
You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better.… — Claudia Christian Copy Share Image
Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I couldn't have been more shocked if he pulled a pink elephant out of his ass!” — Tamara Rose Blodgett Copy Share Image
