If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be… — John Waters Copy Share Image
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs. — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“WHAT A SHOCK WHEN THEY TELL YOU IT WON'T HURT AND YOU ALMOST TURN INSIDE OUT WHEN THEY BEGIN.” — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all… — Rick Baker Copy Share Image
When i've done camera test, after we've shot and I've seen the monitor with the glasses (wearing a Kimono) and looking by… — Hiroyuki Sanada Copy Share Image
No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real,… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
“As by an electric current that gives us a shock, I have been shaken by my loves, I have lived them, I… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature,… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My friend Ray Comfort has produced a powerful piece of media that leaves a lasting mark on your heart and mind. '180'… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him, full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
This pain is real, I can feel it coursing through my body, I can see the blood but eventually the shock overwhelms… — Rebecca Copy Share Image
I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.' — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I couldn't look away. My guts wrenched with the transient impact, like walking through a humming electric shock.” — S.J. Lomas Copy Share Image
Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her. — Joan Hickson Copy Share Image
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“When you meet people sometimes they can ignite something in your bones. You feel like it an electric shock sent straight through… — Alexandria Brown Copy Share Image
I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
