Shockingly Quotes

#1. Dios," he said, addressing himself to Jace. "What happened to you, brother? You look as if a pack of wolves tried to tear you apart."
"That's either a shockingly good guess," said Jace, "or you heard about what happened.

Cassandra Clare

#2. I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown ... Please don't dig them out!

Elliot Cowan

#3. Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It's shockingly hard.

Leslye Headland

#4. On't worry about the goddamn bastards. The two words sounded shockingly violent, because his face and voice remained calm.

Ayn Rand

#5. Churches are vessels of hush, as well as everything else they are, and when I block out the distractions of vision, the silence is almost shockingly loud.

Francis Spufford

#6. He tangles his hand in my hair, and the other cups my jaw. Although I have this all planned, his lips feel shockingly sweet, swollen and soft, and more like home every time

Alex Rosa

#7. Shockingly, the hot, hetero, single manny is like a red panda. Rarely spotted in the wild.

Lauren Blakely

#8. Self-abuse is shockingly common, especially among people who have been conditioned to believe that they are to blame when things go wrong.

Anna J. Michener

#9. The door opens and my new neighbor is a vampire. He's nearly a foot taller than me. Unruly ink-black hair, and a face made of knife angles. If I were obnoxious, I might use the term shockingly attractive . Or terrifyingly handsome . Holy mother of balls would also be an option.

Eva Morgan

#10. No wonder I'd never had any friends. I was shockingly bad at it.

Kiera Cass

#11. As you train your mind, shockingly it brings you prosperity as well as the faculty to maintain it.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#12. Never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.

Norman Mailer

#13. She waited for humiliation to streak through her system, but shockingly, none appeared. It felt as though someone else inhabited her body, someone who craved being on display, knowing with full confidence Jonah liked what he saw.

Anonymous

#14. Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.

Susanna Clarke

#15. In the fleeting light she saw the meadow, dotted with stunted hawthorns, their twisted limbs dense with red berries, and then a shape: achingly familiar, child-sized, shockingly still.

Sanjida Kay

#16. You can be deported back to Canada, absolutely, for a shockingly minor infraction. Little bar fight. Next thing you know you are back in Sascatchuan. Which I'm not from, thank God ... But it did concern me.

Ryan Reynolds

#17. I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#18. Lifeless and shockingly alien in that place where dissolution itself was a seething turmoil of ejaculation tumescence conception and birth, and death did not even exit.

William Faulkner

#19. Her eyes are shockingly black - shocking not because black eyes are particularly rare, but because she's wearing smoky gray eyeshadow and dark eyeliner to accentuate them further. Makeup, while the world is ending.

N.K. Jemisin

#20. ( ... )"Flapper" - the notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoked cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy jazz clubs, where she danced in a shockingly immodest fashion with a revolving cast of male suitors.

Joshua Zeitz

#21. Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.

Jessica Valenti

#22. Perhaps a stranger would look at Toby and see little more than a skinny postadolescent with a shockingly bad haircut. But he was my boyfriend, my dom, my fragile prince, and he was nothing less than beautiful to me.

Alexis Hall

#23. A man. A shock of black hair. An intriguingly tilted set of eyes, the hue I couldn't make out in the dark, but shockingly, I could see one was a color that was light, the other a color that was definitely dark.

Kristen Ashley

#24. Perhaps the most shockingly transcendent thing about the God we worship is that He is pleased to stoop down to us, to draw near, to know us, love us, walk with us, and call us all by name.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#25. We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes.

Conor McPherson

#26. I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it's seditious. But it's peaceful sedition.

Bill Mollison

#27. He grinned. "Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless - and shockingly handsome - alter ego."
"And I'm on top of it," she announced with witty triumph.
"Is that a Freudian slip?"
His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#28. He kissed me gently. 'Lieutenant Malachi Sokol, reporting for duty, Captain.'
'What?'
'I've been assigned to your field unit,' he whispered as he nuzzled my neck. Oh, man. Heaven. Help. Me. 'I'm afraid I'm already being shockingly insubordinate.

Sarah Fine

#29. His face was shockingly handsome,tan and smooth,except for the two healed scars near his right ear and mouth.

Laura Wright

#30. The arrogance of wanting to be loved had emerged only now it was unreciprocated - I was left alone with my desire, defenseless, beyond the law, shockingly crude in my demands: Love me! And for what reason? I had only the usual paltry, insufficient excuse: Because I love you . .

Alain De Botton

#31. I'm a shockingly bad sleeper. In bed very late. Awake at the crack of dawn.

Andy Serkis

#32. Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.

Frederick Turner

#33. Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

Larry J. Sabato

#34. When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.

Doris Lessing

#35. No, silly girl," he muttered against my shoulder. "I'm trying to protect yours. And you're making it shockingly difficult." "Of

Stephenie Meyer

#36. Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

Sir Fulke Greville

#37. Despite Soviet 'defeat' in 1991, the ideas associated with Communism remain shockingly reputable throughout what we still know as the Free World.

Diana West

#38. As a child, growing up in Hampstead, North London, I was shockingly fair-skinned. Holidays involved me spending the second and third day face-down on a bed, shrieking should anyone touch my blistered skin.

Jane Green

#39. To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don't have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not as the predominantly liberal and humanist literary establishment believes that they ought to be.

John Braine

#40. Now it's different, and to me it was shockingly humble, but there with my girl in my arms and our child in her belly I knew I had reached the moment my life had been waiting for. I was going to be a father and a husband.
I spanked her bottom and cranked up the tunes.

Ethan Hawke

#41. We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

Tom Freston

#42. I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.

Trey Parker

#43. The Deep Web contains shockingly valuable information. Can you imagine how cancer research would blossom if every researcher had instant access to every research paper done by every single university and research lab in the world?

John McAfee

#44. Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#45. You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Taylor Swift

#46. Life is shockingly short to trouble about certain things.

Jude Morgan

#47. When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!

Indra Nooyi

#48. The problem is that games and porn are entertaining, inexpensive, easily accessible, and reliable. Women can be entertaining, but they're expensive, inaccessible for most men, and from the male perspective, shockingly unreliable.

Helen Smith

#49. Facebook's own security department has shockingly acknowledged that over 600,000 accounts are compromised every day.

Marc Goodman

#50. I think leather pants are just better than jeans onstage; they give the performance a nice attitude, and they are also shockingly comfortable. Comfort is key.

Jessie Baylin

#51. A feeling erupted in my stomach, like nothing would ever be the same again. Like good karma was catching up with me. Like someone had opened up the lid to my lobster tank and I was finally breathing in the shockingly fresh air.

Francesca Zappia

#52. MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

#53. I think we should send him back," Reth said, glancing at poor, broken Jack with something that looked shockingly like compassion in his golden eyes. "He hasn't your resilience, and, admirable as it was of him to join us, this isn't his fight.

Kiersten White

#54. I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.

Emma Stone

#55. Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

Spencer Bachus

#56. This bright place isn't really a sanctuary. For, ambushed among its bottles and cartons and cans, are shockingly vivid memories of meals shopped for, cooked, eaten with Jim. They stab out at George as he passes, pushing his shopping cart. Should we ever feel truly lonely if we never ate alone?

Christopher Isherwood

#57. Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

Banana Yoshimoto

#58. Repentance is shockingly beautiful when we see it not as "I sinned again, I need to repent," but as "I sinned against my God again, but He is calling me back so He can lavish me with His love and forgiveness.

James MacDonald

#59. Shockingly tactless," Lady Warford said. "Unfortunately, Longmore can be tactless quite fluently in several languages

Loretta Chase

#60. The real satire starts when I'm shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked.

Munia Khan

#61. Shocking is easy. Shockingly brilliant, a bit more challenging.

Lee Clow

#62. Some of the hotels I've been put up in for work in Scotland have been shockingly bad. They're the type of hotel where the bedroom is like a cell and the Internet doesn't work. I feel quite aggrieved at that because you should at least be treated reasonably well and have basic comfort.

Robert Winston

#63. Shockingly (to maybe only me), being in a relationship has done the opposite of limiting me. It's emboldened me to try something much scarier than I would have tried if I were alone. Maybe Rachel the Hasidic journalist was right: love frees you to be the person you actually are.

Kristin Newman

#64. Sometimes Blake was shockingly perceptive. And other times he got himself locked in Portaloos.

Lisa Henry

#65. It was shockingly weird to touch another person after a whole life - because the last three months were my whole life - of avoiding any kind of contact. Like touching a sparking downed power line, only to find out that it felt nice.

Stephenie Meyer

#66. A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut