Shock Quotes

783 quotes by 679 authors

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in… — Alexa Vega
Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock. — Tequan Richmond
Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe… — Rick Yancey
Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people,… — Ertharin Cousin
So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. — Alice Walker
If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions for people, I… — Richard Dawkins
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock. — Noam Chomsky
In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone,… — Eric Kandel
I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness. — Babe Paley
Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in the… — Robert Zoellick
Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so… — Paul Bloom
I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other… — Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share. — Nancy Gibbs
If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread. — Mo Ibrahim
Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply. — Terry Wogan
In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so… — Morris Gleitzman
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine… — Karen Abbott
Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need… — Jennifer Armintrout

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