Electroshock Quotes

#1. Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.

Walter Kirn

#2. The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes On American Excess,

Sam Tanenhaus

#3. They worried that I spent too much time alone, clinging to the notion that socializing was therapeutic. So was electroshock, I reminded them.

Ransom Riggs

#4. Most best-sellers are written for readers who are willing to be passive consumers. The blurbs on their covers often highlight the coercive, aggressive power of the text - compulsive page-turner, gut-wrenching, jolting, mind-searing, heart-stopping - what is this, electroshock torture?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

Augusten Burroughs

#6. When I was seven, I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with my mom. When Jack Nicholson was strapped to the table getting electroshock treatment, my mom burst into tears. She said it reminded her of her life, and I was stunned, because I didn't know my mom had been nominated for an Oscar.

Christopher Titus

#7. Her forehead was unlined in the way of the recently embalmed and her smile resembled that of someone undergoing electroshock.

Dennis Lehane

#8. I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.

Wislawa Szymborska

#9. Create content that satisfies your uber goals and desires.

Tom Webster

#10. I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

Anne Roiphe

#11. Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

Laura E. Richards

#12. For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. Nova shrugged, looking as if she had personally invented shrugging and hadn't quite sorted out the fine details yet.

Philip Reeve

#14. It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

Charlotte Church

#15. Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.

May Sarton

#16. It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

Leland Stanford

#17. Everything we know and love is at risk if we continue to ignore the warnings.

Laurie David

#18. For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. A bruise is a lesson ... and each lesson makes us better.

George R R Martin

#20. Impossible situations are our specialty.

Richelle Mead

#21. I was just cleaning up my own mess, Baz. Like, no one would call you a hero for cleaning up your own vomit.

Rainbow Rowell

#22. In a sense, I'm always hearing music of some sort, whether it's people talking or surface noise or whatever, because there is no privacy. So when I'm by myself, I just kind of like to be and reflect, and I can't do that when I'm listening to music. Because it's someone else's reflections, not mine.

Sarah McLachlan