Shock Quotes

It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

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

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

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

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

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Why are people getting on elevators shocked to find people getting off elevators?

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I haven't anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.

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

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

I foresee death by culture shock.

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.

Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.

It's good to shock. It's not good to always be careful. It's good to disturb a little.

Color me! Accessorize me! Shock me!

Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.