Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness. — Babe Paley Copy Share Image
If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks. — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing… — Andrew Marr 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
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“It takes a shock to the system, doesn't it, to make a man realize what good things he has.” — Graham Moore Copy Share Image
“When you’re constantly prepared for things to go wrong, it’s a shock when they go right.” — Jane Corry Copy Share Image
The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do… — Charles Webster Hawthorne 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
“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
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
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
“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
“Dead?' said Rincewind. In the debating chamber of his mind a dozen emotions got to their feet and started shouting. Relief was… — Terry Pratchett 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
The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid… — Jeffrey Kluger 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
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
[Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
![“[Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more than just a technical innovator. Like all visionaries, he spoke the truth. And no matter how comfortable we think we are with the truth, it always comes as a profound shock when…” quote by Martin Scorsese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0c3/martin-scorsese-1663_comfortable_kubrick-was-unique-in-the-sense-that-wit_1653152.jpg)
