Shock Quotes

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The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on… — Omar Bongo
The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to… — Charles Webster Hawthorne
A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro… — Joan Miro
I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of… — Joan Miro
The economy has settled into a sustainable, self-reinforcing growth path, .. All major categories of the economy have contributed to economic growth. Now that businesses… — Sung Won Sohn
No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health… — Jean Helion
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a… — Ransom Riggs
Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In… — Robert Genn
For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm by a friend,… — Mark Kostabi
Experimenters are the shock troops of science. — Max Planck
Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition, — Yves Saint Laurent
For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust… — Matthew Arnold
I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock. — Johann Sebastian Bach
You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this… — William Shatner
If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty. — John Waters
It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after. — John Waters
An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long. — Robert Longo
Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious — Declan Donnellan
I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I believe, but at… — Olivier Theyskens

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