I thought the 60s in London was normal, so when it stopped it was a shock. — Rita Tushingham Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock. — David Bailey Copy Share Image
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it... — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it. — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
“Maurice was scandalized, horrified. He was shocked to the bottom of his suburban soul…” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this… — Larry Coker Copy Share Image
For me, noise is not something I use to shock, or because it's funny, or weird, or whatever. I use it because… — Christian Fennesz Copy Share Image
The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of 'The New York Times' sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
But my point is that 'the death of God' is not something like the Battle of Waterloo or Magna Charta. It's not… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's… — Victoria Gotti Copy Share Image
If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four." He squints at me and then… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
“I wanted to turn on the table saw and rip a plank, but I had to drive to the airport. I had… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“The throbbing in her jaw brought her back. The sky outside was brightening, the morning light highlighting the horrible mess in front… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. The technique is: Just feel… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
It's no longer possible to find something which will shock other people, because everything has already been done. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies. — Celso Amorim Copy Share Image
“Whatever it takes to find the real you, don't be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.” — Stephen Richards 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
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
Auntie lookin at me like I sell rock. Point-blank range, call it shell-shock I. — Vado Copy Share Image
“My reflection always gives me a shock. I never really believed I would age, and certainly not like this.” — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
It's hard to shock people, especially when people want to know, like, spoilers and stuff like that. — Christian Cage Copy Share Image
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