Shock Quotes

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.

Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It's been a shock.

There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.

It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.