Shock Quotes · Page 5

“How could this have happened when everything was normal?”

— Joan Didion

I'm not trying to prove myself, and I'm not trying to shock anyone.

— Jameela Jamil

You often see shocks in the League Cup, even when you don’t expect them

— Jan Mølby

“Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.”

— Teri Terry

Anyone who goes on 'The X Factor' to make big money will be in for a big shock.

— Simon Cowell

Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up.

— Hiroo Onoda

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.

— Maurice Sendak

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

— Paul Halmos

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

— Marya Mannes

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

— Lew Wallace

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

— Leonard Cohen

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.

— Tucker Max

“When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?”

— Marilyn Manson

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

— Tequan Richmond

“The whole point of international terrorism is to shock the world with the most horrific spectacle imaginable.”

— Steven Pinker

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

— Charles Dickens

After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there…

— Tony Blair

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale…

— John L'Heureux

Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel…

— Joe Hill

I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes,…

— Anne Roiphe

Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give…

— Thomas Noon Talfourd

So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law…

— Byron York

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

The majority of my fans have been amazing & supportive. But I am in shock and ashamed of many of my 'fans'…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into…

— Gelett Burgess

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the…

— Douglas Adams

For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing…

— Javier Camara

It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their…

— Thomas Sowell

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

We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it…

— Oswald Chambers

What are a genuine pain in the ass are all the misconceptions and outright lies. I read somewhere that in 2004 I…

— Jim Goad

He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let…

— Philip K. Dick

I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

— Oscar de la Renta

Shock always sells. You know? But you could shock in good taste.

— Grace Jones

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

— Walter Benjamin

Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

— Veronica Roth

“Being comfortable with the norm can make changes come as a shock.”

— Steven Redhead

Hahah at least I have a G shock and you dont.

— BasedGodKam

Only artists without talent try to shock people.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

— Jamaica Kincaid