Shocking Quotes

It's very shocking for me to see pictures from my win here in 2008. I aged.

The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

So many girls have become famous for literally nothing - other than falling out of clubs in shocking clothing or going out with a different person every week.

The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is the character who doesn't fit the mold.

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

It's all based on saying the shocking thing. We used to have a great time going to Hollywood parties and saying 'I think George Bush is doing a great job.' We'd clear out the room. I used to love it.

If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

I'm not a real blond... Shocking.

It is rather shocking to note that opposition leaders, who are representatives of the wananchi (citizens), are themselves rejecting the participation of the wananchi in this major public issue.

It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

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.

It's shocking how bright your star is.

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.

Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it.

He is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I have watched Lord of the Rings and films with strange looking people, but for a human being to look like he does is pretty shocking.

The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

I think certainly directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.

Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people.

I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."

Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.

The thing I love about working with first-time directors is that it's always quite shocking how little difference there is between them and directors who've been directing all their lives.

I love shocking people.

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.

As if being a former vampire drone in a werewolf household were not shocking enough, the maid then opened her mouth and proved that she was also, quite reprehensibly, French.

Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion.

I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more shocking.

The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

It was simultaneously refreshing and a bit shocking to see how cavalierly most Aussies toss out slurs and insults about nonwhites.

They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.