Shock Quotes
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I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.
Donald Fagen Steely Dan
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My goal isn't to shock.
Taylor Momsen
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Especially for younger generations - this was their Ray Robinson - I think it came as a great shock.
Larry Merchant
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When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'
Rachel Platten
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I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore.
Deepa Mehta
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It was a real culture shock. It was a very fast-paced, demanding fishbowl.
Bob Richards
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This is an event of such horrifying, unimaginable proportions that I believe it is one where shock grows with time rather than diminishes.
Jack Straw
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I can give you the cause of anaphylactic shock in a nutshell.
Gary Delaney
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
Lauren Graham
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The 1980s were such a shock for me. I was really young, obviously, and The Slits were just mutilated. We were totally sabotaged to such a point that we were put out in exile. So that was the best way for me to spend the '80s: in the jungle, naked. Maybe there are more options now, and there's more girl groups. The only thing good that came out of the '80s was breakdancing.
Ari Up
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My heart goes out to Paris right now... We were just there a week ago. Everyone here is in shock over the news.
Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir Of Monsters and Men
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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
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It feels fantastic. You have no idea the work we've put into this season. I'm still in shock right now that we won. It's just mind-blowing.
Marc Nelson Boyz II Men
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I came out when I was 13 and started to become more open about liking boys, and I still ended up dating girls and boys. It seems to be the natural progression from where I was, but it wasn't a shock to anyone that I was close with.
Michael J. Willett
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Murder before impropriety! ... It never fails to shock me - what a properly brought-up Englishwoman will condone to ensure her blessed propriety.
Carole Nelson Douglas
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I’m no longer an avant-garde artist, out to shock, I want people to enjoy my music.
Irmin Schmidt Can
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But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.
Lord Byron
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The search for love is ultimately the shock reaction of the cutting of the umbilical cord.
Alexander Bard Army of Lovers
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A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
Emmanuel Levinas
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I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
Ethel Waters
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Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
Paul D. Boyer
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I'm not going to play someone too far from who I am. Although I did a movie where I played a killer, and that has yet to come out. But that's someone I love being able to shock people with. I could do something you would not expect me to do. My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.
Gregory Phillip Grunberg Band from TV
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
George Bernard Shaw
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It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
Nicole Kidman