Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“She parted her lips as though she were going to scold him, but, after a moment of sitting with her mouth agape… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away… — Will Durst Copy Share Image
With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though. — Tarja Turunen 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
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
“Maurice was scandalized, horrified. He was shocked to the bottom of his suburban soul…” — E.M. Forster 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
“Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one… — Belinda Bauer Copy Share Image
The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
Uh, the Council," I said. "Big shock, they aren't helping." Murphy looked like she might be asleep, but she snorted. "So we're… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms.… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking… — Max von Essen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
