Shock Quotes
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Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.
Ernest Hemingway -
Right now, I'm just shocked by it all, the way that it ended. This is weird all the way around. But that's the way it goes. It just got away from us.
Gary Sheffield
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Only artists without talent try to shock people.
Nobuyoshi Araki -
It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.
Walker Percy -
Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
Paul D. Boyer -
Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
William Francis Buckley -
I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.
Marilyn Monroe
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I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost because of AIDS. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's Hospital who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying alone. Who knows what happened to their work? It's been a process to follow the thread to find out everything Howard did. It's getting over that shock.
Aaron Brookner -
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
Eva Zeisel -
It's good to shock. It's not good to always be careful. It's good to disturb a little.
Ellen von Unwerth -
Awwww.... I'm not trying to be punk....I just like it... mohawks are cool...when, when you like first get it done it's a bit of a shock... but other than that...yeah i like it...
Ben Gillies Silverchair -
I was in a very deep state of shock after that. I had raised my horse since he was six months old and he was more like a child to me, so I took it very hard. They never caught who did it and the stable did a great job of covering facts up so it couldn't be proved that it was the direct result of the article, but the coincidence was striking.
Jeff Miller -
I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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 -
It was the pits, man. It was the difference between having all your dreams dashed and then three seconds later, they’re alive again. It was a shock, it was a genuine shock for me. I’m just glad I’m still here.
Anoop Desai -
Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious.
Declan Donnellan -
Oh no, Nick" Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, "how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious.
Sarah Rees Brennan -
Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.
William Shakespeare -
I don't really go into shock around celebrity.
Chad VanGaalen
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I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.
Sarah Silverman -
Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the tone of your voice. A harsh voice from me can make my cows jump in terror. I shouted at old Queenie once and she got such a shock that she fell down just as if she'd been shot.
Barbara Woodhouse -
Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.
Jonathan Krisel -
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