Top 1200 Shock Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime there. They were trying to protect Namibia, to protect apartheid, and nobody did much about it; but the Cubans sent forces, and furthermore they sent black soldiers and they defeated a white mercenary army, which not only rescued Angola but it sent a shock throughout the continent-it was a psychic shock-white mercenaries were purported to be invincible, and a black army defeated them and sent them back fleeing into South Africa.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious

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

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

It's cool to be different and just be who you are and shock people in a good way.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

I can't wait to shock the doubters and prove I'm better and stronger than I was before.

Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!

I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

That was probably the biggest shock I had in my career, coming from League Two to the Championship.

I've always been wary of anyone who calls themselves a 'shock comic.'

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

Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.

Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.

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

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

I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock.

His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.

I was being called a shock comic. I hated that. It's so cheap and stupid.

Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party.

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

I think I have the same hair as him. If a movie comes about, I have to be Static Shock.

Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.

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

The feeling after the first title was shock. But both feel incredible.

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

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

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

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

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

We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

Pop shouldn't be a comfortable slipper. It should shock and surprise you and confront your expectations.

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

Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

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

Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

Limbaugh hosts a radio show. His job is to shock people.

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.

When we hit a nail with a hammer, the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into the point without any of it being lost, although it is only a point. If the hammer and the head of the nail were infinitely big it would be just the same. The point of the nail would transmit this infinite shock at the point to which it was applied. Extreme affliction, which means physical pain, distress of soul and social degradation, all at the same time, constitutes the nail. The point is applied at the very center of the soul, whose head is all necessity, spreading throughout space and time.

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.

Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.