Shock famous quotes

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.
-- Aaron Hill

#Law #Reason #Shock

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Shock #Beneficial

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
-- Alvin Toffler

#Disorientation #Shock

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.
-- Alvin Toffler

#Fiction #Sovereign #Shock

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
-- Alvin Toffler

#Individual #Shock #Capable

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 #Shock

Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.
-- Anderson Cooper

#Doe #Gray #Shock

Color me! Accessorize me! Shock me!
-- Anna Dello Russo

#Color #Shock

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
-- Anna Freud

#Firsts #Shock

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Thinking #Confusing #Shock

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.
-- Anne Rice

#Art #Shock #Madmen

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.
-- Annette Funicello

#Shock

Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Nice #Bananas #Shock

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

#Stars #Pops #Shock

And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
-- Benazir Bhutto

#Believe #Shock #Humans

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
-- Bob Brown

#Want #Shock #Wanted

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.
-- Bob Newhart

#Resorts #Shock #Shows

Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.
-- Bryan Callen

#Shock

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

#Action #Shock #Wells

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

#Dogma #Artwork #Shock

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.
-- Carl Jung

#Personality #Shock #Terrible

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Needs #Electricity #Shock

It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.
-- Celso Amorim

#Apology #Would Be #Shock

I don't really go into shock around celebrity.
-- Chad VanGaalen

#Shock

The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.
-- Christine Pelosi

#Jocks #Shock #Free Market

If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.
-- Cornel Wilde

#Reason #Scene #Shock

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.
-- Dan Wells

#People #Killers #Shock

I've been on shows that go for shock value
-- Daphne Zuniga

#Shock #Shock Value #Shows

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
-- David Bailey

#Years #Shock

When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.
-- David Levithan

#Understanding #Shock

A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her.
-- David Ogilvy

#Wife #Insult #Shock

Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious
-- Declan Donnellan

#Reality #Shock #Expected

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.
-- Donna Rice Hughes

#Television #World #Shock

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
-- Ed Rollins

#Littles #Tough #Shock

It's good to shock. It's not good to always be careful. It's good to disturb a little.
-- Ellen von Unwerth

#Littles #Shock #Be Careful

If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.
-- Ethel M. Dell

#Clouds #Unawareness #Shock

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
-- Eva Zeisel

#Be Kind #Grotesque #Shock

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
-- F. H. Bradley

#Gossip #Shock #Interest

I can give you the cause of anaphylactic shock in a nutshell.
-- Gary Delaney

#Giving #Causes #Shock

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
-- Harold Brodkey

#Pain #Agony #Shock

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Pain #Emotion #Shock

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.
-- J. Courtney Sullivan

#Individual #Disappear #Shock

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.
-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Shock #Inevitable

You often see shocks in the League Cup, even when you don’t expect them
-- Jan Mølby

#League #Cups #Shock

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.
-- Jerry Saltz

#Artist #Shock #Harder

I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay

#Giving #Mind #Shock

I find anthropology is a marvellous discipline to shock me out of my own world into another world.
-- John Dominic Crossan

#Discipline #World #Shock

It's so difficult to shock America these days.
-- Judd Apatow

#America #These Days #Shock

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
-- Jules Renard

#Truth #Power #Shock

He took a moment to get over the shock, and to remind himself that this had surely been difficult for her and she was probably bracing herself for a rejection. At least he hoped she was. If she wasn't, she needed to do that straight away, because it was coming. God damn right it was coming.
-- Julianne MacLean

#Rejection #Moments #Shock

Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch.
-- Kami Garcia

#Shock

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Reason #Polemics #Shock

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Children #Adults #Shock

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
-- Lance Loud

#Accepted #Gayness #Shock

There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
-- Laura Prepon

#Shock

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

#Doe #Television #Shock

Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.
-- Marcel Duchamp

#Shock

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.
-- Margery Allingham

#Giving #Modern #Shock

I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.
-- Maria V. Snyder

#Soul #Littles #Shock

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
-- Mary Renault

#Unexpected #Kind #Shock

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.
-- Matt Gonzalez

#People #Promise #Shock

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
-- Max Planck

#Science #Troops #Shock

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.
-- Michael Tolkin

#Father #Successful #Shock

I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects!
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Special #Shock #Breasts

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Shock

I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like? We don't even know
-- Naomi Shihab Nye

#Stronger #Flaws #Shock

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
-- Oscar Wilde

#People #Shock

Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
-- Paul D. Boyer

#Blood #Shock #Treatment

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.
-- Paula Marantz Cohen

#Long #Atrocities #Shock

I am still in shock and awe at being fired,
-- Peter Arnett

#Shock #Awe #Stills

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.
-- R.K. Narayan

#Shock #Produce #Callousness

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
-- Richard Foreman

#Art #Doe #Shock

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.
-- Robert Bloch

#Noise #Shock #Heard

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
-- Robert Farrar Capon

#Unemployment #Shock #Pathology

Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.
-- Rufus Wainwright

#People #Glamour #Shock

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

#Tone #Said #Shock

Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock.
-- Scott M. Gimple

#Character #Done #Shock

The physical shock took away the pain of being.
-- Sebastian Faulks

#Pain #Shock

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
-- Seth MacFarlane

#Laughing #Sake #Shock

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Pain #Ache #Shock

Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.
-- Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#Country #Issues #Shock

I'm a little bit in shock, to tell you the truth.
-- Steven Levitan

#Littles #Shock

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
-- Talib Kweli

#Kids #Shock #Young

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!
-- Thomas Gibson

#Shock #Show Business #Shows

Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
-- Tina Turner

#People #Traffic #Shock

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 #Shock

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
-- Walter Benjamin

#Giving #Shock

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
-- Will Durst

#Disaster #Shock #Debris

I foresee death by culture shock.
-- Woody Allen

#Culture #Shock #Culture Shock

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition,
-- Yves Saint Laurent

#Shock #Repetition #Bores

I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.
-- Diane Kochilas

#Shock Therapy #Shock #Economist

If somebody had said to me back in 1988 that I'd still be making music in 25 years' time, to start with I would have keeled over with shock because I wouldn't have believed them.
-- John Wesley Harding

#Years #Said #Shock

What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself.
-- Sophie Ristelhueber

#Bombs #Swallowing #Shock

Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.
-- Timo Tjahjanto

#Purpose #Film #Shock

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.
-- Roger Scruton

#Art #Humanity #Shock

I looked at my shoulder and saw a javelin stuck in it. I was in shock.
-- Roman Sebrle

#Javelin #Saws #Shock

You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.
-- Haylie Duff

#Successful #Needs #Shock