Shock Quotes · Page 21

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

— Mary Renault

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

— Terry Wogan

If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

— Andrew Pyper

The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.

— Werner Molders

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

— Phil Collins

Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been…

— Khaled Hosseini

I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.

— Babe Paley

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's… Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

— Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what…

— Polly Berrien Berends

Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs…

— Mark Martin

I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot…

— Andree Putman

I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When…

— Jackie Mason

It's not that I'm deliberately trying to shock people all the time. I'm just doing things that are obvious to me. It's…

— Takafumi Horie

I'm not a massive fan of 3D. I've seen some good 3D, and I've seen quite a lot of bad 3D. I…

— Richard Armitage

If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The…

— R. O. Blechman

"Rock Candy" was my first record. I had never been in a studio, so I was in shock and I had no…

— Sammy Hagar

“Draco, do it, or stand aside so one of us -" screeched the woman, but at that precise moment the door to…

— J.K. Rowling

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian…

— Shimon Peres

The people of Earth are emerging from an amnesiac-like state of collective shock, which has blocked the influx of spiritual knowledge into…

— Barbara Marciniak

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is…

— Victor Hugo

I'm the new Oberjarl." I knew it," said Halt instantly, and the other three looked at him, totally scandalized. You did?" Erak…

— John Flanagan

A poor old man held the winning ticket on a half million dollar lottery. Hearing the old man might be surprised at…

— Art Linkletter

When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial…

— Edgar Mitchell

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and…

— Benjamin Franklin

Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over…

— Craig Stone

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

— Alvin Toffler

The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn't worth attention are the things that attracts attention”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock…

— Robert Henri

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

— John Osborne

“It is always a shock to meet again someone whom you have not seen for a long time but who has been…

— Agatha Christie

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that…

— Harold Brodkey

What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand…

— Michael Cunningham

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he…

— Park Chan-wook

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

— Bryan Cranston

“The new science will be a manifestation of ancient technologies. It will come in sudden, humans will experience technological shock.”

— Toba Beta

Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion.…

— Emily Giffin

To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation - head down, trying not to screw up,…

— Atul Gawande

Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and - or Down's…

— Joni Eareckson Tada