Shock Quotes

783 Shock quotes by 679 unique authors

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. — Jules Renard
You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character. — Ray Romano
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. — Bertrand Russell
Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so. — Jerry Saltz
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities… — Will Self
I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it. — Sarah Silverman
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in… — Lewis B. Smedes
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock. — Gertrude Stein
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.' — J. Michael Straczynski
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. — Kristin Scott Thomas
I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and… — Gene Tierney
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. — Alvin Toffler
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock. — Alvin Toffler
Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic. — Tina Turner
In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us. — Iyanla Vanzant
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are… — Voltaire
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. — George Washington
I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used… — Ethel Waters
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight. — Jacki Weaver
Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.' — Johnny Weir
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize… — P.G. Wodehouse
After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001,… — Naomi Wolf
I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say. — Neil Young
Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways… — Douglas Rushkoff

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