Shocks Quotes

114 Shocks quotes by 103 unique authors

Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting… — Joel Edgerton
Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals. — Theodor Adorno
A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what… — Melanie Chisholm
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 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
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
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. — Henry David Thoreau
The economy has settled into a sustainable, self-reinforcing growth path, .. All major categories of the economy have contributed to economic growth. Now that businesses… — Sung Won Sohn
Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks. — Napoleon Bonaparte
For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust… — Matthew Arnold
The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that… — Bill Vaughan
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. — Alexander Pope
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes… — Park Chan-wook
I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks. — Alfred Hitchcock
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
We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean. — Loretta Lynn
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. — Thomas Paine
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
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
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
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. — Sylvia Plath
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets… — John Dewey
I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all. — Donna Tartt
It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back. — Sue Monk Kidd
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount… — Bertrand Russell

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