Top 100 Quotes About Shock
#1. Have you always been so large? (Nora)
Aye. I came from my mother's womb at full height. The shock of it almost killed her. (Ewan)
Kinley MacGregor
#2. Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.
Joe Hill
#3. The look she gives me is priceless - shock mixed with pure pleasure. I make a note to put that look on her face as often as possible.
Deanna Chase
#4. Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
Hampton Sides
#5. That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true ... Hell, don't pose me that one.
David Bowie
#6. The rumors were that at least one of the three largest commercial banks would go bankrupt, similar to LTCB (Long Term Capital Bank) a couple of years before, causing a market shock that would reverberate around the world. I
David Schneider
#7. When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.
Matt Cameron
#8. Her family was a relay team racing toward Tomorrowland, but her father died, and in their shock they kept losing the baton.
Stacy Bierlein
#9. It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
Nicole Kidman
#10. It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
James Baldwin
#11. It was quite a shock for me to discover that crime was so easy that it was boring. I reluctantly turned to scholarship.
Barry Hughart
#12. Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
Oscar Robertson
#13. It's so difficult to shock America these days.
Judd Apatow
#14. Those of us of a certain age will recognize the shock that Marcel felt when he entered the main salon and saw his fellow guests for the first time after the passage of years. At first he thought it was a fancy-dress ball.
Patrick Alexander
#15. 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
#16. I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.
Robin Williams
#17. Feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had
come which must end in its undoing,
Bram Stoker
#18. The trail of "secret migration" was a shock to me. I knew a little about the difficulties, just bits of news in the media.
Hassan Blasim
#19. Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of 'Scum.' All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.
Ray Winstone
#20. With courage of adventure, you can overcome the culture shock in a visit to a new country.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#22. River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
Zach Galligan
#23. If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
Nancy Gibbs
#24. We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Winston Churchill
#25. At that moment, I have to hold myself back from bitch-slapping her!
Whoa Chambers! I shock myself with that; I have never ever thought such a thing before.
A.J. Walters
#26. Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Alvin Toffler
#27. Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
A.S. Byatt
#28. If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
Andrew Pyper
#29. Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.
Maurice Sendak
#30. Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow.
Alvin Toffler
#31. This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you've seen that before, you haven't. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.
Robert Kirkman
#32. I was a huge horror fan, especially in my teenage years. Back then, there were a lot of Italian horror movies - some zombie, some just really strange movies that made no sense. I was really into shock and gore.
Chuck Hogan
#33. The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
Noam Chomsky
#34. Although we may deplore the film's scatological language, sexual explicitness and gratuitous gore as seemingly designed only to shock, in the manner of an angry, attention-craving child, we must remember that this movie was actually made by an angry, attention-craving child.
Mark Leyner
#35. You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.
Clare Balding
#36. It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try.
Joseph Stefano
#37. I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
Annie Lennox
#38. Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
Truman Capote
#39. I need my meds. And shock therapy. And maybe an enema!
Jay Bell
#40. If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions for people, I am likely to shock some of my friends.
Richard Dawkins
#41. I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the words flowed unbidden from my pen, and the time had passed unheeded, so that it was a shock to realise that I had been writing for some six hours.
Gavin Maxwell
#42. I've seen many a small life meet its doom at the end of a beak in our yard, not just beetles and worms but salamanders and wild-eyed frogs. (The "free-range vegetarian hens" testimony on an egg-carton label is perjury, unless someone's trained them with little shock collars.)
Barbara Kingsolver
#43. Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
Orson Welles
#44. A diverse system with multiple pathways and redundancies is more stable and less vulnerable to external shock than a uniform system with little diversity. - Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Donella H. Meadows
#45. It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.
Paula Marantz Cohen
#46. The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
Anne Lamott
#47. I'd only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of his face by jerking his head suddenly to the side, whiplash-style. Rina found this incredibly sexy. It made me nervous. - Caitlin about Jeff
Sarah Dessen
#48. I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.
George Carlin
#49. Facing and embracing grief allows us to experience the shock, anger, disappointment, and other feelings that need to be processed before we can move through this transition.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#50. If all Christians must surrender their bodies to God in Christ whenever they enter the fellowship of Christ's body, then it should come as no great shock that God might actually make demands of those Christians and their bodies - demands proving that God, and God alone, has authority over us.
Wesley Hill
#51. We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.
Seinabo Sey
#52. What a Life: Give some of us pills to stop a fit, give the rest shock to start one.
Ken Kesey
#53. For me, noise is not something I use to shock, or because it's funny, or weird, or whatever. I use it because I find it beautiful.
Christian Fennesz
#54. Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.
Michel De Montaigne
#55. America's entire war on terror is an exercise in imperialism. This may come as a shock to Americans, who don't like to think of their country as an empire. But what else can you call America's legions of soldiers, spooks and special forces straddling the globe?
Michael Ignatieff
#56. In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.
Gail Sheehy
#57. What does agonizical mean?" she asks. I hold up my hands like it's obvious. "To be consumed with shock and denial at unrequited love from the man who is supposed to be your soul mate,
Katie Kacvinsky
#58. A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her.
David Ogilvy
#59. With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.
Randolph Bourne
#60. But my point is that 'the death of God' is not something like the Battle of Waterloo or Magna Charta. It's not a historic event of that kind. For many people it hasn't happened yet. Others - to recur to an earlier question - are still in the phase of intense shock.
George Pattison
#61. Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.
Audrey Hepburn
#62. Nothing is more painful than the shock of sharp contradictions that lacerate our intelligence and our feelings.
Joseph Conrad
#63. As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
Victor Hugo
#64. When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new stimuli combined with a lack of guidance forced me to develop my own approaches to learning and juggling.
Timothy Ferriss
#65. I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
Hedy Lamarr
#66. I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
Patrick Ness
#67. Trapped in his own bad apple. Each morning a shock
to return to the cut soul.
Anne Carson
#68. To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further.
Amanda Craig
#69. To rise, he felt his wings begin to glow. "You carry no babe." Silence, her shock morphing rapidly into fury. "An accusation of deliberate falsehood! You incite a war!
Nalini Singh
#70. Now and again we would happen to step out of the familiar universe into a sudden sharp shock of sweetly scented air, sudden as spilled perfume, piercing as crystal, dark and sweet as the sound of oboes.
Steven Millhauser
#71. I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four."
He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.
Pittacus Lore
#72. Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.
Milan Kundera
#74. Odd," he remarked finally. "One has no sense of shock. Why is that, Peter? You know me. Why is it?
John Le Carre
#75. Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.
Jessi Kirby
#76. I was neither glad nor unhappy to see her, but maybe that's what shock does, because I was surprised, that I will say.
Alan Sillitoe
#77. Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.
Jane Green
#78. I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.
Alice Cooper
#80. [Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck
'
[Opal] 'Was?'
[J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.
Maria V. Snyder
#81. Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.
John Gay
#82. Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
Bill Walsh
#83. Besides, captain, have you no interest in seeing Lord Henarald's expression when he learns that my master seeks to commission a sword?' Galar Baras's head snapped round in shock.
Steven Erikson
#84. He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, and said, 'Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, that's all,' and had scampered off into the long grass
Neil Gaiman
#85. ... you almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.
Nicholson Baker
#86. Mankind will experience a knowledge shock
when being forced by need to use new science.
Toba Beta
#87. Harry slipped down a few stairs in shock. It was packed, far more crowded than when he had last been in there. Kingsley and Lupin were looking up at him, as were Oliver Wood, Katie Bell, Angelina Johnson and Alicia Spinnet, Bill and Fleur, and Mr and Mrs Weasley.
J.K. Rowling
#88. The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.
Mason Cooley
#89. Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
Herman Melville
#90. To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation
head down, trying not to screw up, just going from one day to the next
that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and offering you a job. But the day comes.
Atul Gawande
#91. Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was also a reason for late-term abortions that was tough. I did a book on dwarfs and know a lot of them, and that was a shock. That's a decision I could not feel comfortable with.
John H Richardson
#92. From spending ten years in hell and coming to this regime of kindness was a shock. It was so much of a shock, it was unbelievable. I was like an untamed animal, I couldn't accept it and I just wouldn't accept it.
Stephen Richards
#93. Yes, I know. Shock horror. A single woman regularly indulging in casual sex.
Kylie Scott
#94. Now if you are told that some piece of information will come as a shock to you, the chances are that you will really feel shocked, even if the information itself isn't of the slightest importance.
Walter R. Brooks
#95. I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'
Johnny Vegas
#96. I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.
Anna Kendrick
#97. I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe.
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
#98. When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock
Muhammad Ali
#99. Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.
Lisa Kleypas
#100. 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
