Shock Quotes

783 Shock quotes by 679 unique authors

What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film… — Ray William Johnson
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber. — Lew Wallace
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to… — Jeremy Robert Johnson
We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if… — Seth MacFarlane
The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that,… — Stephen Daldry
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer,… — Michael Tolkin
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw
Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
We're going to be surprised when we discover that things in Heaven are normal and natural, much like this life. Of course, it will be… — David Berg
When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself… — Charlize Theron
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when… — James Whistler
I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen. — Thomas Browne
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. — Henry David Thoreau
Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer… — Jeanette Winterson
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits;… — Philip James Bailey
From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait. — Henri Matisse
Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words… — Red Skelton
Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised. — Paul Gauguin
bizarreness masqueraded as creativity. — Edward Gibbon
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an… — Jacob Burckhardt
The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it… — Elizabeth Hardwick
It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a… — Andrew Wyeth
I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it… — Sean William Scott
Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the… — Ben Kingsley

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