the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
“We're taking you to the hospital,' it said, 'you're going into shock. Can you tell us how you feel?' 'I feel ...'… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home… — John Major Copy Share Image
I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
“In another study subjects waited an unknown length of time to receive a shock.12 This lack of predictability and control was so… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The problem is that, in a world of floating exchange rates, as Italy was before the euro, if one country is subjected… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I wrestled and played football in high school and in my last year, I started as a wrestler and actually had a… — John McCain Copy Share Image
A light was on in the kitchen. His mother sat at the kitchen table, as still as a statue. Her hands were… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Although my doctors informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion, as well as shock, I do not seek to escape responsibility… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“A state of shock is produced when a story is ruptured… Trump is not a rupture at all, but rather the culmination… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you… — Sophie Tucker Copy Share Image
So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law… — Byron York Copy Share Image
To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The shock of orgasm pulls you under the wave you never saw coming. It wrestles you to the point of exhaustion and… — Megan Mitcham Copy Share Image
Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
The majority of my fans have been amazing & supportive. But I am in shock and ashamed of many of my 'fans'… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
His hand touches my waist, steadies me. The touch sends a shock through my body, and all my insides burn like his… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I think people often underestimate the power of consumers. But I equally say that consumers are like shock troops: You can't keep… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love,… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
The Gospel comes in power and the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. If you call upon the name of the Lord, God… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The thing about fame, is you never think it's going to happen to you. So when it does, it's sort of a… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to… — Anne Beatts Copy Share Image
One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
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