Gun violence is almost promoted onscreen in these huge blockbusters and then sex is still so shocking. But I also can understand… — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
It's really shocking to see what the military can do, strip you of any personality, turn you into an aggressive, sociopathic sadist… — Abby Martin Copy Share Image
If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me. — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
It's very shocking for me to see pictures from my win here in 2008. I aged. — Sebastian Vettel Copy Share Image
The only thing more shocking than the truth are the lies people tell to cover it up !! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business. — Lea Thompson Copy Share Image
Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first. Brands need to do that. — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I think it's a bit shocking for people when pop stars say anything out of the safe zone. — Jade Thirlwall Copy Share Image
People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom,… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
It's only shocking to the uninitiated that 'Teen Vogue' would have the audacity to be political and style-focused. — Elaine Welteroth Copy Share Image
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“So the key is doing something that sets you apart forever in the minds of regular people. Something that matters.” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
The fact that the CIA knew that two of the 9/11 hijackers were entering the United States and didn't notify the FBI… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way,… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan came to office and had already been an experienced politician as governor of California, whose ideology and ideas, no matter… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
On Girls I like being a mouthpiece for the issues I think young females face today. It’s always shocking when people question… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I enjoyed being what I was in radio, which some thought of as a shock jock although, to this day, I still… — Wendy Williams Copy Share Image
Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
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