Shock Quotes

First of all, people were not expecting [Donald Trump] to win. I still think they're in shell-shock four months later. Get over it.

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

Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this one was a real 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.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

I never dress to shock.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

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

[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.

Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.

Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I don't learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.

I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

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

Europe is nervous. Already rattled this year by the shock of the Brexit vote, the European Union needs stability in Italy, a country notorious for its instability.

Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.

The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start singing the words. Because it occurs to you that they've listened to it!

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

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.

You saved me, Eve." He watched her blink in absolute shock. "What you are, what I feel for you, what we are together saved me." He kept his eyes on hers as he kissed her.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.

After the stretch of weather we've had, this is going to be a culture shock for some people. We always end up crashing back to reality.

When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

You would think the fury of aerial bombardment would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces. History, even, does not know what is meant.

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

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.

I'm one, too," he said. "What?" He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin." What a shock. "What makes you think I'm a virgin?" I asked. "You wouldn't have hit me if you weren't.

Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.

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

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.

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

At the shock of a joke, everything disappears but the present moment.

I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.