“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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
The 1980s were such a shock for me. I was really young, obviously, and The Slits were just mutilated. We were totally… — Ari Up Copy Share Image
We're going to be surprised when we discover that things in Heaven are normal and natural, much like this life. Of course,… — David Berg 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 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
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
That's what you strive for - you strive to take your move to the next level. It's about shock value, always shock… — Crazy Legs Copy Share Image
When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing,… — Red Skelton Copy Share Image
That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
It was a shock to my system leaving 'The West Wing' and going to 'Psych.' I remember being like, 'What are you… — Dule Hill Copy Share Image
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without… — Peter Viereck Copy Share Image
Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Scared ya, did I? Aw, that's sweet. Don't worry the shocks won't kill me," she whispered. "They only make me stronger. Anyway,… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pieces look different every six… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
I'm not against shock and horror. In fact, I really belive in facing the dark realities of our time as the first… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
“There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You… — Frederick Barthelme Copy Share Image
I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive… — Craig Brewer Copy Share Image
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I don't attend church because I am a Meryl Streepist and we, her disciples, have not organized a place of worship yet.… — Jasika Nicole Copy Share Image
There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists.… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
