Shock Quotes

783 quotes by 696 authors

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock. — David Bailey
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state… — James A. Baldwin
I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and… — Scott Adams
The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school… — Lynda Barry
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make… — Alfred Adler
Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations… — Annie Besant
That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And… — David Bowie
I like to shock people. — Jo Brand
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. — William Throsby Bridges
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions… — Warren Buffett
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. — George W. Bush
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape. — A. S. Byatt
Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it. — Nicolas Cage
Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award. — Michael Caine
I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone. — Helena Bonham Carter
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not… — Lord Chesterfield
That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter… — Diablo Cody
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth… — Henri Frederic Amiel
I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when… — Francesca Annis
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of… — Seneca the Younger

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