System Shock Quotes

#1. Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.

Warren Spector

#2. I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly equipped; after a surplus of emotional information the system overloads, the circuit breaks, the board runs dark. That's what shock is.

Darin Strauss

#3. 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

#4. Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

Jessi Kirby

#5. 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

#6. It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.

Nicole Kidman

#7. 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

#8. I'm sure you're used to hearing that when people get to Long Island for the first time, it's a bit of a shock to the system. But I found Long Island people very endearing.

Katie Nolan

#9. You cannot be anything but who you are, and you are not a killer. I am a killer, all I need to know is who you need for me to kill.

James Lee Nathan III

#10. If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#11. Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic.

Mo Rocca

#12. But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.

Hortense Calisher

#13. When a plan fails, it does not mean we have failed. It just means we need a new plan.

Jenna Alatari

#14. It was a shock to my system leaving 'The West Wing' and going to 'Psych.' I remember being like, 'What are you doing?' when James Roday first started improvising. Steve and the writing staff write it that way. They leave gaps.

Dule Hill

#15. Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.

Timothy Geithner

#16. The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival.

Nathan Englander

#17. I have been doing this since I was 10 years old. It wasn't like I was an overnight hit. I think when that happens to some actors - they just don't know what to do with themselves. You don't know how to cope with friends and all of a sudden not being able to go out. It's such a shock to your system.

Eliza Dushku

#18. You need to accept your yesterday, so u can be happy on your today, risk and failures will always be there, and so is success.

Candy Bustillo

#19. It takes a shock to the system, doesn't it, to make a man realize what good things he has.

Graham Moore

#20. Fame is always a shock to the system; there's no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it's a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.

Barry Manilow

#21. After having your first child, it's a massive shock to the system. I work in an industry where people judge you and the way you look, and you always want to put your best foot forward when you can.

Louise Nurding

#22. I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.

Rand Paul

#23. When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

Emma Forrest

#24. And her stare is a force I feel could shock my system like a defibrillator, restarting my heart.

Sarah Noffke

#25. Tut!' I said. 'What did you say?' 'I said "Tut!"' 'Say it once again, and I'll biff you where you stand. I've enough to endure without being tutted at.

P.G. Wodehouse