Jolted Quotes

#1. When I was figuring out what to say for the wedding, I kept thinking about you and me." Cinder jolted. "I knew it!" Kai's eyebrows shot upward. "I mean, there seemed to be a lot of overlap," she added. "Especially that part about defying race and distance and physiological tampering." He

Marissa Meyer

#2. Who had jolted Sophie out of her everyday existence and suddenly brought her face to face with the great riddles of the universe?

Jostein Gaarder

#3. I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones.

Saul Williams

#4. Then, wham! My first grandchild was born... I was jolted, blindsided by a wallop of loving more intense than anything I could remember or had ever imagined.

Lesley Stahl

#5. John jolted awake to find himself staring down a shotgun wielded by his greatest enemy: himself.

David Wong

#6. The Lord is like lightening. Startled by its appearance and momentarily blinded by the brightness of the flash, when the lightening strikes a person is either destroy or jolted to new life." Elias the Teacher

Daniel Molyneux

#7. How did you know what I was thinking?" Her body jolted at the touch of his hand, wanting more than his hand touching her.
"I know these things. I can read your mind."
"Oh." A heat singed her skin.
"I know about your husband, Richard. He's not good.

Nancy Glynn

#8. No," Jason said. "No ban." The idea that Vale might write poems about him was deliriously wonderful. His heart squeezed and jolted. He wanted to be deserving of Vale's attention and dedicated words. "He'll write according to his inspiration." Father

Leta Blake

#9. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.

Amy Carmichael

#10. Like any good novel, it lulled him into an almost tranquil state of awareness before it jolted him - it caught him completely by surprise.

John Irving

#11. Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

Douglas Wilder

#12. The two events were probably unrelated, but both jolted Dave the way a sudden air pocket reminds nervous passengers that they're soaring above the clouds in a pressurized metal tube.

Dan Sofer

#13. Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful enough to fall in love with, it is one of the most beautiful experiences. It's like being jolted with electricity and knowledge at the same time.

David Lynch

#14. The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.

Norman Rockwell

#15. Only a self capable of being jolted out of its mundane complacency is up to the task of both hearing what repair demands and helping to invent new responses to harms that no preexisting remedy fully comprehends.

Jill Stauffer

#16. Thunder without sound jolted the air around her. The violence of it was magnificent, immaculate, glorious.

Terry Goodkind

#17. I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.

Chris Pine

#18. The elevator jolted and came to a halt. Caught off balance, Hannah stumbled into him. Lincoln caught her, and her cheeks filled with color. "Hmm." Mr. Welch rubbed his beard. "Looks like she's warming up to you already, Mr. Cole.

Lorna Seilstad

#19. Everything he saw was unspeakably menacing and horrible; and whenever one of the organic entities appeared by its motions to be noticing him, he felt a stark, hideous fright which generally jolted him awake.

H.P. Lovecraft

#20. You understand your place in it, and you feel an incredible love for everyone and everything, and you're just sublimely happy, and then you're suddenly jolted back to reality, and you've got to deal with the world as it is

Larkin Grimm

#21. Servants ran to wake the young king, Tamar, already awake and watching from his balcony. Curious, naturally. Not altogether pleased. No more than anyone would be, jolted out of a sound sleep by unexpected elephants.

Lloyd Alexander

#22. Gregori jolted back. "Snap! You couldn't control one measly mortal?"
Roman clenched his fists. "No."
Gregori slapped a hand against his brow. "Snap!"
"Why the hell are you snapping? Are you a turtle?" It was times like this that firing Gregori
seemed to be the wise choice.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#23. A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.

Henry Ward Beecher

#24. Kit was jolted; had he looked bored? He'd been enjoying the sound of Ty's voice, lively and thoughtful.

Cassandra Clare

#25. Just before dawn, when the pain became unbearable, he took one of the morphine tablets and fell off into a loud, booming sleep, in which the great sun expanded until it filled the entire universe, the stars themselves jolted by each of its beats.

J.G. Ballard

#26. Jolted by a twentyfold increase in testosterone, a bull changes into a sort of spinach-eating Popeye, a self-confident jerk ready to fight anyone in his path.

Frans De Waal

#27. The leaving happened slowly, gradually, as these things do, and before we knew it, we were lost to each other, as if a magician had whisked a cloth off the table, leaving the dishes there, jolted. And when we looked back it was all a blur, time on fast forward, hurtling to an inevitable conclusion.

Kathryn Stern

#28. The offspring of two bookish parents, I made up my mind as a boy that I would be as unlike them as I could. I was determined not, as an adult, to look up from a book with that confused, abstracted, disappointed expression that my parents shared when jolted out of book life into real life.

Richard Russo

#29. It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

D.J. MacHale

#30. I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.

Kathleen Norris

#31. I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.

Dean Koontz

#32. How many times did people have to prove that anything could be art before we could finally admit that very little was actually art? Theoretically,

Jade Chang

#33. I love driving fast under streetlights.

John Green

#34. I've forgotten many things, but I'll never forget a melody.

Michael Jackson

#35. People must be amuthed." - Mr. Sleary

Charles Dickens

#36. The best way to learn is by doing; never ask others to do what you're not willing to do yourself.

Ellen Sauerbrey

#37. Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear

William C. Bryant

#38. Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul.

William Henry Houghton

#39. It is truly natural and ordinary thing to desire gain; and when those who can succeed attempt it, they will always be praised and not blamed. But if they cannot succeed, yet try anyway, they are guilty of error and are blameworthy.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#40. Forget to criticize, but never forget to enjoy criticism.

Debasish Mridha

#41. I want to be inspired by the characters that I play and excited by the projects that I do.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#42. Every happy family is happy in the same way. Every unhappy family is unhappy in different ways.

Leo Tolstoy

#43. It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

Warren Christopher