Shock Quotes · Page 11

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.

— Tara Lipinski

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

— Neil Young

Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.

— Ally Carter

Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.

— Horace

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

— Ben Lindsey

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for…

— Lance Loud

If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.

— Ethel M. Dell

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing…

— Andrew Marr

The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to…

— Sarah Silverman

When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You…

— Charisma Carpenter

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on…

— Charles C. Mann

So here’s where they put you. I didn’t think they even used these cells anymore.” He glanced sideways. “I got the wrong…

— Cassandra Clare

“Her death had a powerful impact on me I suppose because it was such an obvious shock, like watching someone for hours…

— Russell Brand

Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name…

— Talal Asad

Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more…

— David Cameron

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as…

— Jodi Picoult

“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

You guys didn't really think you could go off on a party weekend without me, did you? Especially here of all places—"…

— Richelle Mead

They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for…

— Patricia Highsmith

There was one time they knocked me out and laid me in front of my mother's door. And in order for my…

— Jack Kirby

Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to…

— Sam Mendes

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain…

— Bertrand Russell

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms.…

— Charlotte Bronte

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

— Marilyn Manson

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

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

— Leonard Cohen

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— Steven Pinker

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

— Eva Zeisel

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and…

— Billy Graham

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

— Tequan Richmond

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

— Brian Eno

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

— Anonymous

Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.

— Paul D. Boyer

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

All the success has come as a huge shock, because most famous people you see just seem born into that world.

— Rhod Gilbert

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of…

— Yann Martel

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

— Julia Child