Shocked Quotes - Page 12

• Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

  Mary Lee Settle

  Mirrors, Hands, Age

  Mary Lee Settle (1954). “The Love Eaters”

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• If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama, while relatives and friends await the inevitable end in a succession of weary anti-climaxes.

  Alanna Knight

  Death, Drama, Relatives And Friends

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• I am shocked and slightly perturbed by his exuberance and quick wit. Knock Knock Channel 4

  Scott Capurro

  Quick Wit, Wit, Exuberance

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• It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.

  Nora Ephron

  Running, People, Infinite

  Nora Ephron (2015). “Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.64, Melville House

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• shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

  Muriel Barbery

  Art, Support, Vitality

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• Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.

  Hoda Kotb

  Should Have, People, Buttons

  Hoda Kotb (2010). “Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Dream, Kings

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 28, 2013

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• For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things actually moves. I find it very hard to be shocked, and when other people aggressively take offense to something, I'm sometimes confused.

  Demetri Martin

  Confused, Moving, People

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.

  Tom Stoppard

  Mean, Play, Two

  Source: news.postimees.ee

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• Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Meditation, Ego

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• I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Way, Aliens, Painting

  Interview with Todd Solondz, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2015.

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• I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come in as the author and say, "Hey, okay. I'm interrupting the narrator here. I'm Bret Easton Ellis, and I'm the author."

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Narrators, Fiction

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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• I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television.

  Michelle Forbes

  Age, Fans, Television

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• Communication, that's what I do. Advertising is the best way to communicate because you reach a lot of people. I still cant understand though, why people are shocked by something that obviously exists. Its like a family that avoids talking about its real problems.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Real, Communication, Talking

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face was stitched back together and here I still am, gratefully so. I believe that experience shocked me into a deep alliance with the animal world, its beauty and viciousness and terror.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Dog, Believe, Animal

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• You have a different relationship to your own personal material than you do to other people's. When you go to the bathroom, you're not horrified and shocked. But if you walked in and found someone one else had just been, you probably would be. Your own relationship to these things is slightly different.

  Marc Quinn

  Found Someone, People, Different

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• People are most shocked and most in disbelief that I go to the office every day. I have a job. When I'm not acting on a movie, I go to work, first thing in the morning. I'm at work at 8 o'clock in the morning, and I get home from work at 7 o'clock at night. I treat my job like a job, and I work at it. I think people would probably be most surprised, if I ever calculated up the number of hours I work on an average week and published that. If it was ever documented, I think people would be shocked to find out.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Morning, Jobs, Home

  "Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl Interview KILLERS". Press conference, collider.com. May 23, 2010.

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• Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan English, in particular, were shocked by Irish displays of affection, by the way women acted toward strangers, walking up and putting their arms around them and kissing them right full on the mouth.

  Frank McCourt

  Kissing, Emotional, Mouths

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• Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the skate/punk scene of the 80s. We were so shell-shocked from the attacks that we sort of regressed into this childlike mode of filling our apartment with '80s memorabilia. We got all of our favorite skateboard decks off of eBay, bought a bunch of old independent trucks, we got a credit card so that we could buy 720 off of a videogame vendor, we sat around listening to T.S.O.L. and The Misfits playing 720 and pretending that we were still living in our childhood.

  Rick Remender

  Independent, Ebay, Oakland

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I was shocked when they told me congratulations, you won, that's the good news. Then the bad news is that you have six battles next week. That was a bit of a shocker. I was exhausted. And I had Chopped shooting that same week. I didn't have a sous chef lined up; I thought that was bad karma to try to think ahead. So I scrambled. I scrambled the jets, took off and we bombed our target. I think it's gone well.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Karma, Congratulations, Thinking

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• You just don't expect posh girls to grab your tits, call your trousers "too clitty" and use words like "pussy pelmet" but they do. You are so shocked by what they are saying that by the time you have recovered and thought of something to say they have whipped you out of your jeans and eased you into a Lycra cat suit.

  Susannah Constantine

  Girl, Cat, Jeans

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• When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

  Renee Olstead

  Stars, Reality, Decision

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• The people were shocked to find out that their vote is worthless because of the major fraud that takes place in Iraq.

  Saleh al-Mutlaq

  Iraq, People, Vote

  "Iraq Constitution Passes in Referendum". Al-Arabiya TV, www.foxnews.com. October 25, 2005.

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• I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.

  Burt Rutan

  Data, Smell, Climate

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• I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

  Justin Theroux

  News, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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