Shock Quotes

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

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

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

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

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

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

I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.

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

That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.

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.

The bar for being shocking doesn't even exist anymore. What am I going to do to shock people? Seriously, try to get The Fisting Musical off the ground? Its really at this point, there is no bar.

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.

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

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door.

Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because you will be in shock.

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

I don't really go into shock around celebrity.

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research would solve that.

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

Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.

But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

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.

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

Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over the shock.

I'm going to give the people what they want. Sensation, horror, shock. Send them out in the streets to tell their friends how wonderful it is to be scared to death.

It's good to see you," Said Haru. "You can see me?" asked Marcus, patting himself in sudden shock."The potion must have worn off! That's the last time I give my lunch to a talking squirrel". P12

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

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

The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

I worked with a writer, Kathleen Boyce. It was a wonderful experience...but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be the last chapter of Donna Karan. That was probably the biggest shock.

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

This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin that they assume that the remedy started with the death of Jesus.

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known.

I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.