Shock Quotes

783 Shock quotes by 679 unique authors

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock.… — Erica Jong
I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else. — Anna Kendrick
It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people,… — Sam Kinison
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country… — Allen Klein
The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and… — Jeffrey Kluger
Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again. — Madeleine M. Kunin
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it. — Talib Kweli
I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat… — Hedy Lamarr
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are. — Anne Lamott
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I… — Annie Lennox
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to… — Alex Lifeson
The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend the Constitution, and… — Rush Limbaugh
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. — Ben Lindsey
We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean. — Loretta Lynn
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock… — Norman Mailer
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. — John Mayer
What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on… — Dennis Miller
Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions. — Hayao Miyazaki
When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke,… — Joyce Carol Oates
When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I… — Susan Orlean
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. — Thomas Paine
When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit… — Jane Pauley
The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant. — Christine Pelosi
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage… — Shimon Peres
It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters. — Josh Radnor

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