Jolt Quotes
50 quotes by 46 authors
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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the…
— James Wolcott
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These growth hormones, where can I get a bunch of them? Is there some way that, with electricity, you could stimulate your own growth hormones?…
— David Lynch
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Fang felt a cold jolt, then dismissed it. Max wasn’t dead. He would know, somehow. He would have felt it. The world still felt the…
— James Patterson
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If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his…
— Wilfred Owen
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I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the…
— Hugh Prather
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The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and…
— Suzanne Collins
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I lifted onto my toes, put my hands aroung his neck, and pulled him down. When our lips met, that first jolt... It was everything…
— Kelley Armstrong
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And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the…
— Jennifer Egan
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Plus it's just embarrassing when someone - oops.' She pressed a hand to her side, and had the blood draining out of Harper's face. 'What?…
— Nora Roberts
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To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.
— John Waters
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Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing…
— John Green
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She tries to turn too soon, and the ladder smacks into Fernando's shoulder. "Oh! Sorry, Nando." The jolt knocks his glasses askew. He smiles at…
— Veronica Roth
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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or…
— John Green
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Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?
— Elizabeth Wein
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A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the radio, it was…
— Hugh Laurie
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A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt.
— Evel Knievel
Who Wrote These Jolt Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 50 Jolt Quotes, led by these top contributors: