Shock Quotes - page 2

To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people. (Oscar Wilde)
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block! View quote
W. S. Gilbert
One might expect bad behaviour from existentialists – indeed that was what existentialism was all about, was it not? – but to find this happening on one's own doorstep was a shock. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
The first time I saw a picture of Elvis - I was in a state of shock, because I couldn't believe that a human being could be so beautiful. View quote
Gottfried Helnwein
You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning. View quote
Rod Serling
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. View quote
Herman Melville
Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! View quote
Lord Byron
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable. View quote
Brian Eno
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of those came as a terrible shock and, like anything else that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After. View quote
Ransom Riggs
A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock. View quote
Anna Freud
When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up. (Matt Cameron)
Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself. View quote
Naomi Klein
Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two. View quote
Neal Shusterman
I am still in shock and awe at being fired. View quote
Peter Arnett
Surfing?” he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone had ever laughed in Tartarus before-just a pure, simple laugh of pleasure. She doubted it. View quote
Rick Riordan
Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock. View quote
Annette Funicello
She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear. View quote
J. Courtney Sullivan
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked. View quote
Jonah Hill
But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it. View quote
Christopher McDougall
Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award. View quote
Michael Caine
After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all. (Yann Arthus-Bertrand)
Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching. View quote
Bob Geldof
I reject that criticism because this is indeed another kind of holocaust, by another name. At last count, more than 40 million unborn children have been deliberately, intentionally destroyed. What word adequately defines the scope of such slaughter? [After 9/11] the American people responded with shock, sadness and a deep and righteous anger - and rightly so. Yet let us not forget that every passing day in our country, more than three thousand innocent Americans are killed [through abortion]. View quote
Jesse Helms
When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock. View quote
Henry Kirke White
Death and it's associates, after the initial shock produce callousness. View quote
R. K. Narayan