Shock Quotes

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

There's nothing you could say that would shock me.

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

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.

It's so difficult to shock America these days.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it was definitely a culture shock, it was something I wasn't quite ready for.

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

I've been on shows that go for shock value.

I am still in shock and awe at being fired.