Shock Quotes - Page 21

• Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.

  George W. Bush

  Memories, Loss, Sacrifice

  The World Will Always Remember 9/11, delivered 11 December 2011

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• Color me! Accessorize me! Shock me!

  Anna Dello Russo

  Color

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• I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Please Me, Inspire, Delight

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.18, A&C Black

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• Anything that you can shock somebody with. The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

  Jaden Smith

  Want, Way, Muscles

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

  Bryan Cranston

  Action, Wells, Materials

  Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 13, 2011.

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• You’re far more likely to see a naked woman than a naked man. It’s only [seen as] rude because the rest of television is rather tame – it doesn’t actually talk about sex and our bodies and how we feel about them. I’m not out to shock.

  Russell T Davies

  Sex, Men, Rude

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• The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at the window and curled up under your eiderdown, and you did not find them till you went to bed, it was always a shock. The ones this size did not eat people, only lettuces, but they always scorched the sheets and pillowcases dreadfully.

  E. Nesbit

  Sheep, Dragons, People

  E. Nesbit (2016). “THE BOOK OF DRAGONS: 8 Dragon Tales from Edith Nesbit author The Railway Children”, p.54, Abela Publishing Ltd

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• The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Progress, Matter, March

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Fall, Heart, Autumn

  James Whitcomb Riley (1895). “The Days Gone by and Other Poems”

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• How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Grief, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.132, Penguin

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• The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Heart, Men, Two

  The Nation, August 31, 1927.

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• It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

  Thomas Sowell

  Clever, Mean, Common Sense

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Doctors, Scary

  "God save McQueen" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.

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• I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.

  Joy Behar

  Electric Shock, Giving, Pills

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2012

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• It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

  Michael Behe

  Fundamentals, Goes On, Natural

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• It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

  Michael Behe

  People, Principles, World

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• So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

  Rick Baker

  People, Generations, Television

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• I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

  Beverly Cleary

  Lonely, Children, School

  "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

  Claudia Christian

  Writing, Thinking, Blood

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• This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.

  Olivia Colman

  Mad, Lovely, Sound

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• It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

  Belinda Carlisle

  Stars, Pops, Full Life

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• Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

  Tom Conti

  Said, Related

  "DNA project reveals Tom Conti's Napoleonic blood and rich roots of Scotland's genetic legacy" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

  Joel Edgerton

  Drama, Thinking, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

  Mem Fox

  Other Cultures, Appreciate, Giving

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• One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

  Richard Foreman

  Art, Doe, Audience

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