The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. — Terry Southern
A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock. — Anna Freud
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. — Jonah Hill
Why are people getting on elevators shocked to find people getting off elevators? — Brian Regan
When it happens you are very surprised, and you feel that it is not real, but obviously it is real so I have to get used to it now. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
There's no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 MPH and suddenly get hit from the rear — Darrell Waltrip
That's what you strive for - you strive to take your move to the next level. It's about shock value, always shock value, but keeping it flavor and stylized and making it yours. — Crazy Legs
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy. — Banana Yoshimoto
Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment. — Thaddeus Stevens
Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. — Robert Browning
The thief shouts to frighten the hell out of his victim — Greek Proverbs
Short Shock Quotes
Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. — Milton S. Hershey
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. — Niels Bohr
I can't wait to shock the doubters and prove I'm better and stronger than I was before. — Derrick Rose
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. — Tony Robbins
If you're not shocked by the thought of who you were 10 years ago, you're not growing. — David Sinclair
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. — Noel Coward
I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later. — Ai Weiwei
Limbaugh hosts a radio show. His job is to shock people. — Tucker Carlson
I’m always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed. — Terry Bradshaw
His mustard has jumped off. — Romanian Proverbs
Shock Image Quotes
I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock. — Roman Sebrle
System Shock Quotes
While the move to central clearing has made the system safer, we need to make sure that the central counterparties have the resources and risk-management practices to withstand plausible but severe shocks. — Jerome Powell
We need a resilient, well-capitalized, well-regulated financial system that is strong enough to withstand even severe shocks and support economic growth by lending through the economic cycle. — Jerome Powell
We described the coronavirus crisis as more of a shock to the system as opposed to a full-blown recession which would spiral into a depression as the economy shut down. — Cathie Wood
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. — Timothy Geithner
But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected. — Daniel Yergin
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law. — Patricia Ireland
In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock to the system to realise that they weren't, that they didn't even aspire to be, really. Some of them did, maybe, but some of them, like Samson, were very frightened of the idea. — Bruce Dickinson
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. — Thomas Paine
If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system. — Gwyneth Paltrow
Fame is always a shock to the system; there's no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it's a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down. — Barry Manilow
Shell Shock Quotes
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. — Jan Karon
That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion. — Cassandra Clare
Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings. — J. K. Rowling
So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked. — Lea Thompson
First of all, people were not expecting [Donald Trump] to win. I still think they're in shell-shock four months later. Get over it. — Kellyanne Conway
England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War I love it. — Ian Hislop
Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling. — Christine Lavin
When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean years, they just didn't know how to handle the pressure. They were quiet; they kept to themselves. I said, " Hey, this has gotta change. Let's make pressure fun." — Ron Jaworski
She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop. — Kristin Hannah
Jesus Shock Quotes
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes. — Peter Kreeft
The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart. — Peter Kreeft
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. — Peter Kreeft
Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven. — N. T. Wright
Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word. — Peter Kreeft
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love. — Peter Kreeft
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love. — Peter Kreeft
Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked. — Peter Kreeft
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. — Peter Kreeft
Shock Value Quotes
An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long. — Robert Longo
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. — Joshua Leonard
It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time. — Beth Ditto
To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices. — Edward Norton
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton
The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected. — Mike Ferguson
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. — Lance Loud
Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks. — Alan Greenspan
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it. — Talib Kweli
I stand by everything I said. I absolutely can defend my material, and I take issue with people who say, "It's just shock value. It's not even funny." I disagree. There's different ways to be funny and to be a comedian. — David Cross
Culture Shock Quotes
You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture. — Mem Fox
We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's not in the shock that one finds art. And it's not the excessively beautiful. It's in between; it's in nuance. — Duane Michals
When i've done camera test, after we've shot and I've seen the monitor with the glasses (wearing a Kimono) and looking by myself in 3D. Oh my god. Especially for a Samurai film. I've never seen that. It's kind of a culture shock. — Hiroyuki Sanada
The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy. — Matt Stone
When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it won't be frightening even though it will be a shock. — Philip J. Corso
It was a black and white film [at first]. And then it changed to colour film, and I was surprised and culture shocked when I was six or seven years old. And then HD, then 3D now. So what's going? What's coming next? It's so exciting. — Hiroyuki Sanada
A lot of people don't know the culture shock of how you can be in a rich area and then be in poverty. People don't know how different it is over there. — Wiz Khalifa
Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back. — Khaled Hosseini
Electric Shock Quotes
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. — Henry David Thoreau
Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows. — Bill Gates
My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash. — Zach Anner
I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food. — Joy Behar
Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport. — Paolo Di Canio
When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'. — Horatio Nelson
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him. — Benjamin Franklin
Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shock Absorber Quotes
Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother — Barbara Johnson
Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows. — Peggy Noonan
I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock. — Bob Brown
A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you'll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead. — Bill Watterson
Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life. — Yogi Berra
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
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. — Ben Bernanke
Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be different than Atlanta. — Mark Martin
It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody. — Billy Corgan
I'm always working on something new and while I'm working, I'm absorbed with my characters, their conflicts,my language and settings. I'm in another place and it is a shock to come out and consider my previous works. — Sefi Atta
Shock Therapy Quotes
I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy. — Diane Kochilas
What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy. — Lenny Bruce
Frank Farrelly. . .must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game of therapy with their therapists, but, I am afraid, also a shocking example for those therapists who, in Laing's words, 'are playing at not playing a game'. — Paul Watzlawick
It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it," Macey said, and Bex shrugged "We told you we were taking precautions." Of course. Because at Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy". — Ally Carter
Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy. — Ally Carter
Shock And Awe Quotes
I am still in shock and awe at being fired. — Peter Arnett
Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well. — Rick Yancey
The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States and, even the 'shock and awe' of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable. — Katie Couric
I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry. — Maggie Stiefvater
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.' — J. Michael Straczynski
When you say, 'I am a Christian,' you are saying, 'I am mashiach,' in the Hebrew. I am a little messiah walking on earth, in other words. That is a shocking revelation. ...May I say it like this? You are a little god on earth running around — Benny Hinn
So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. — William F. Buckley Jr.
Brock Lesnar is not here to put smiles on people's faces. Brock Lesnar is here to shock the WWE Universe and put TEARS in the EYES of CHILDREN! — Paul Heyman
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. — Alvin Toffler
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique. — John Scott
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. — James Hillman
It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you. — James A. Baldwin
A 4-year-old child actually has a few hundred million years of experience, not 4. Their rapid learning and generalization is much less shocking magical considering this fact. — Andrej Karpathy
Heat shock proteins are a fascinating area of research with potential implications for aging and disease. — Rhonda Patrick
Doctors, good doctors, are doing unthinkable things, like injecting biologically active messenger RNA that produces this pathological spike protein into pregnant women. I think when the doctors wake up from their trance they’re going to be shocked to think what they’ve done to people. — Peter A. McCullough
A number of years ago, when I had an exhibition of my work, the people in charge who came to pick up my manuscripts saw them piled up haphazardly in the garage and were shocked. — Akira Toriyama
I personally lost 50 pounds not by restricting my food but by adding more fiber-rich foods to my diet and eating them until I felt full. I was shocked to find that the solution was abundance, not restriction—and that food quality was more important than food quantity. Why hadn’t I been taught this in medical school? — Will Bulsiewicz
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!» — Slavoj Žižek
There was one challenge where Murr took a guy's sock off his shoe and put it in his mouth. I couldn't believe he did that. — Joe Gatto
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. — Sylvia Plath
It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier. — Tadeusz Kantor
Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple,
Colour of lilac,
Your great puffs of flowers
Are everywhere in this my New England ...
Lilacs in dooryards
Holding quiet conversation with an early moon;
Lilacs watching a deserted house; ...
Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom,
You are everywhere. — Amy Lowell
There is no possible alternative to austerity. Nor is there any room for discussion between shock and gradualism. — Javier Milei
I was at business school doing pretty well for myself, had a few offers from some great companies. But when I traveled across the world, I was shocked by just how much pain, struggle, and anguish people had to go through to have basic necessities. — Jay Shetty
Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy. — George F. Kennan
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. — Alvin Toffler
If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second. — Eleanor Clark
You want to shock the body and not be constant. Intermittent fasting is an increasingly popular way: Skip breakfast, for example. Also lifting weights, losing your breath from exercise and alternating between hot and cold temperatures. We think these measures will only get us to 100 to 122 years old. That's our natural lifespan. — David Sinclair
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it. — Emmanuel Levinas
I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live. — Bettie Page
The sauna robustly elevates heat shock protein levels that can persist for up to 48hrs. Heat shock proteins play a preventative role in neurodegenerative diseases and sauna use is associated with a 66% lower risk of Alzheimer's disease. — Rhonda Patrick
Half the population of the entire world is women, and people are somehow shocked that this entire half is as capable as the other half. — Chamath Palihapitiya
I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it. — Ruth Graham
We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. — Lysa TerKeurst
Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown? — Rachel Weisz
...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of control. — Mikhail Gorbachev
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