Jolting Quotes

#1. There are pictures of Kim and Mia from high school and one of the two of them posing on top of the Empire State Building - a jolting reminder that their relationship wasn't truncated, they have a history of which I know nothing.

Gayle Forman

#2. The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama' is 'How do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?' Not every surprise is good, but you want to continue jolting people.

Matt Groening

#3. The horses came to an abrupt halt, jolting the children so that they were torn from their seats and flung together like trapped trout.

Jessica Lawson

#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. Time is the one thing that can't be stopped. Like a sharp blade, it silently cuts through hard and soft, constantly advancing. Nothing is capable of jolting it even the slightest bit, but it changes everything.

Liu Cixin

#6. THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On occasion the voice of peace resounds like thunder, jolting human beings out of their stupor.

Morihei Ueshiba

#7. I still get thrilled by the energy that is a live performance, the fear and the panic and the electricity that happens on the night. I think jolting myself every once in a while with that fear is a good thing for me.

Jane Krakowski

#8. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.

Carew Papritz

#9. One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?

Kelly Williams Brown

#10. It was as if the voice of the violin sparked the wicks of each individual soul, jolting them from sleep.

Sophia Elaine Hanson

#11. When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

Criss Jami

#12. Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

Seth Godin

#13. Change is the end result of all true learning.

Leo Buscaglia

#14. 'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.

Gene Luen Yang

#15. We playing? Or am I just throwing you down and fucking you?

C.D. Reiss

#16. I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.

Paul Walker

#17. My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

Samuel L. Jackson

#18. I've never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.

Lou Holtz

#19. I am not an intellectual, I write with my body. And what I write is a moist fog.

Clarice Lispector

#20. I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

H. Rap Brown

#21. Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#22. There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.

Sufjan Stevens