Quotes About Shocking Things

#1. People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.

Damien Hirst

#2. When two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

Rosamond Lehmann

#3. One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'

Shane Smith

#4. Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

H.G.Wells

#5. All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror.

Catherynne M Valente

#6. The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.

Park Chan-wook

#7. I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together. So it's as shocking as it is tragic. I really enjoy it. It's a valuable skill set. I certainly feel like more of a grownup.

Charlie Day

#8. 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

#9. I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.

Natascha McElhone

#10. People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

Norman Finkelstein

#11. I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.

Mary Hart

#12. There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

Ray Dalio

#13. There's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.

Josephine Pinckney

#14. I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

Daniel Everett

#15. We've always found that with people being so desensitized, things have to be really shocking and have to punch you in the face to get your attention. Then, once you've got their attention, you can say something they might remember

Marilyn Manson

#16. Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

Samuel Richardson

#17. It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.

Robbie Coltrane

#18. Realizations are strange things. They are composed outside of the conscious self, they are the ends of paths we cannot tread in our waking minds, and for this reason, the most shocking realizations may stab across one's mind, and yet be gone in an instant, fleeting, known-and-unknown.

Moira Katson

#19. In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

Chuck Palahniuk

#20. I like to do things that are shocking or challenging for the sake of comedy.

Skylar Astin

#21. I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before ... I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#22. It's shocking the things we call love.

Deb Caletti

#23. Is it shocking?" he asked sarcastically. "To discover that there are things you don't know?

Lili Wilkinson

#24. I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#25. Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.

Phil Klay

#26. Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.

Stendhal

#27. The thing I love about working with first-time directors is that it's always quite shocking how little difference there is between them and directors who've been directing all their lives.

Eric Bana

#28. One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.

Caitlin Doughty

#29. Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

Christopher Fry

#30. Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them.

George Carlin

#31. And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.

Kim Novak

#32. The biggest misconception is that I only write about shitty people. Or that I'm trying to be shocking. I just think people are super weird, so I like to write characters that get addicted to things, lose their minds, hurt others, put themselves in bad situations. I'm just more interested in that.

Leslye Headland

#33. I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in the way that makes you change how you think about things. Those are the movies I like the best.

John Waters

#34. One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans ... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

Kevin J. Anderson