I've always been wary of anyone who calls themselves a 'shock comic.' — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone. — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own… — Paula Marantz Cohen Copy Share Image
In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock. — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“When you focus on details like this - close up, really clear, totally useless - you know you're in shock” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I recovered from every shock of life's despair because God was merciful enough to restore me .” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't know the culture shock of how you can be in a rich area and then be in… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What will happen then?" Ash stepped closer. His fingers came up to brush the hair from my face, sending an electric shock… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“Her heart just about stopped. “Us?” she asked in shock. “There is no us. There’s a you. And there’s a me. And… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
Six months after 9/11, Jean-Marie Le Pen was almost elected president of France. There were a number of leaders and a number… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“I stop still with the shock and fell my head swim. Richard takes my hand. We stand for a moment, handclasped as… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Every time I do anything, I have to ask myself: Is it a good role, and is it right to do it?… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“I will not share you." Still holding his gaze, she drove her body down onto his. Tiny threads of lightning danced over… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Getting pregnant proved to be a hell of a shock but it's really exciting. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
