Shocking Quotes
292 quotes by 273 authors
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I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking…
— Margaret Atwood
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When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely…
— Lauren Bacall
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I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.
— Brigitte Bardot
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
— Rob Bell
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How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.
— Steve Carell
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Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' - I think in '87 or '88. I think…
— Naomi Campbell
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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I experienced the reality of the spiritual body and learned that it has every faculty of the physical body, though with greater sensitivity and some…
— Catherine Marshall
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It's shocking how bright your star is.
— Britney Spears
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It's superb, definitely. Something that is new to me, that is shocking. I got the news last night about 3 in the morning, and I…
— Scottie Pippen
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The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to…
— John Taylor Gatto
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It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
— Andre Agassi
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For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done…
— Samuel Johnson
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The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem…
— Paul Theroux
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Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that…
— Robert D. Maurer
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Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to…
— Hilary Putnam
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The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
Who Wrote These Shocking Quotes
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