“His eyes did not do anything that shock normally describes. No snapping, no slapping, no jolt. Those things happen when you wake… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
When I played the Shins, I changed someone's life. When I play Belle and Sebastian in a pivotal scene in my next… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
My first child, I think I was completely shell shocked. I was ecstatic but in shock that I was now responsible completely… — Kylie Bax Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about shooting guns instantly on film is to not pull a silly face while the gun is going… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly,… — Claire Weekes Copy Share Image
Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably… — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything…I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it is not an easy closure.… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Rhyme to kill, rhyme to murder, rhyme to stomp, Rhyme to ill, rhyme to romp, Rhyme to smack, rhyme to shock, rhyme… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
People have made sure of that, that you can't shock anybody anymore. It's not just because of movies and TV. It's because… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Having an identity at work separate from an identity at home means that the work role can help absorb some of the… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of… — Edmond Taylor Copy Share Image
“Shock stung her into a quivering mass of pleasure when he captured one of her hands and fed it down to the… — Michelle Reid Copy Share Image
I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five… — Jacqueline MacInnes Wood Copy Share Image
I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to… — Eminem Copy Share Image
I don't know how to tell it--but ef such a thing could be As the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going… — John Lone Copy Share Image
“She tried to ignore that, this close to the man, he had the overpowering chemical scent of a manly shower gel. The… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I was just about to open the door, when it opened up right in front of me. And there stood my parents.… — August Westman Copy Share Image
“People had warned me about the culture shock of going to Africa. Nothing prepared me for the culture shock of coming the… — Richard Dowden Copy Share Image
For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
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