Growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA. — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. — Terry Southern 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
The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course. — Ruth Warrick Copy Share Image
The first time I saw a picture of Elvis - I was in a state of shock, because I couldn't believe that… — Gottfried Helnwein Copy Share Image
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“It gave me a shock. A sudden shock of indescribable pain, like when you’re a kid, and you’re hit on the nose… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Folks still remember the day ole Bob Riley came bouncing down that dirt road in his pickup. Pretty soon, it was bouncing… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
“The servants of a queen, even a queen under arrest, were not usually supposed to be physically higher than she was. Did… — Nicola Clark Copy Share Image
“I’m certain I’ve written things that have offended people, yes – but no, I have never written anything for the sake of… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock.… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“In a life threatening situation, whether terrorism or a rockslide, what kills most people is slowness to react. Regular lives are so… — Tom Wood Copy Share Image
I loved the city, so the feeling in 2001 [election] first was shock, then (I was) nervous, then scared but then it's… — Kwame Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“And here's the shock -- when you risk it, when you do the right thing, when you arrive at the borders of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The phone rang, picked up, and the same male voice announced, “Chris Powers." "Hey there, Chris. Are you aware it's a felony… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his… — Steve Chalke Copy Share Image
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“Terror had them all for a moment, and it ravaged them, and when it was finished, shock had its way with them,… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
“I daresay some would never get their eyes opened if it were not for a violent shock from the consequences of their… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it. — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
“Mankind will experience a knowledge shock when being forced by need to use new science.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact… — Anne Grant Copy Share Image
To see a man get over his fear and trepidation is like viewing a child remember something to them believed to be… — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
“A deep strike to the kidneys will send the human body into immediate shock, rendering it unable to fight or flee.” — Dirk Patton Copy Share Image
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