Gestures Quote by Susan Choi Download Open image “The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.” — Susan Choi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gestures Habitual Shocking Versions
I'm always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction. — CM Punk Copy Share Image
Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“Coup de foudre; perhaps it was real. One went from believing, when twenty, that it was the one kind of love that was real,… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.' I must have read it in high school. I'm pretty… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.' And, you… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“So perhaps it was her grief I felt as I gazed on this child not mine, and not even much of a child anymore.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term,… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.” — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“And I remembered now, too, my inadvertent youthful condescension, when the woman had said, apologizing for some information she couldn't recall, "I still remember… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
“Something crossed his face, a pure motion like wind over water--I couldn't have guessed what emotion it was. "I'll miss you," he said.” — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often… — Robert Loggia Copy Share Image
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Never raise your hand menacingly, but only in a friendly gesture! — Sophie von La Roche Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your… — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image