Shocking Quotes

292 quotes by 273 authors

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
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
I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is. — Brigitte Bardot
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. — Simone de Beauvoir
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
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
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
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
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
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
It's shocking how bright your star is. — Britney Spears
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
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
It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point. — Andre Agassi
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
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
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
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
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
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

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