Shock Quotes - Page 26

• It is true fortitude to stand firm against
  All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
  In fear to suffer more calamity.

  Philip Massinger

  Fate, Suffering, Coward

  Philip Massinger, William Gifford, John Ferriar (1813). “The Plays of Philip Massinger: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence”, p.375

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• With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Years, Two

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.76, The Overlook Press

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• Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. Or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.

  Storm Jameson

  Trying, Stronger, Matter

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• It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

  Jonah Hill

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.

  Bryan Callen

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• I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.

  Roman Sebrle

  Javelin, Saws, Shoulders

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• There's been shock waves sent throughout all parts of the nation's economic fabric.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Fabric

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• If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

  Andrew Pyper

  Writing, Hair, Necks

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• His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

  Romain Rolland

  Distance, Hero, Book

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• I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

  Amy Schumer

  Dark, Say Anything, Has Beens

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

  Camille Paglia

  Dogma, Artwork, Importance

  Camille Paglia (2012). “Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars”, p.12, Vintage

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• It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.

  Richard Billingham

  Meaningful, Political, Intention

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• I got Twin Peaks, and the part was basically written for me, which was a really big shock. I think everything really changed with the right teacher coming together, but before that I worked with Sondra Seacat; she's amazing and very spiritual, but I hadn't worked with her on specific roles. I just was in classes with her.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Spiritual, Teacher, Thinking

  "Sherilyn Fenn talks David Lynch and how Twin Peaks should have ended". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. January 22, 2014.

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• The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  New York, People, September 11

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• Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock.

  Scott M. Gimple

  Character, Done, Should

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• I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

  Chris Lilley

  People, Upset, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated in 1968 it was quite a shock to find out that there was a world out there and that it wasnt going to support me.

  Francine Prose

  College, Ideas, Support

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• Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and -- or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Mother, Children, Curves

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. August 3, 2004.

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• Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed. And then came the next shock. We had to realize that the people that did this were brilliant. It showed that the ego we could hold up until September 10 was inadequate.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, America, People

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• Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Nuts, Allergies, Exposure

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• I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

  Ransom Riggs

  Forever, Would Be, Half

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books

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• Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

  Max Planck

  Science, Troops, Accounts

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• Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hate, Men, Electric Shock

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• I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Repetition, Bores

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• For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers.

  Matthew Arnold

  Change, Men, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.240, Delphi Classics

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