Top 703 Shocking Quotes & Sayings

Nothing I do is salacious or provocative or shocking for the sake of that.

I don't find movies shocking.

One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!

There are some shocking cars on the road.

The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous. Please note that the word 'rich' means having an abundance of good or living a fuller, more satisfying life. Indeed, you are prosperous to the degree that you are experiencing peace, health, happiness and plenty in your world. There are honorable methods that can carry you quickly toward that goal. It is easier to accomplish than you may now think. That, too, is the shocking truth about prosperity.

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.

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

Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end.

I like to do things that are shocking or challenging for the sake of comedy.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

If we do a record, and there's a reggae song, it's not shocking to us. If we do an all hip-hop song, it's not shocking to us. We all listen to that sort of music. It's not about what's in at the time; it's what feels right to us and what we're comfortable in doing.

It's shocking how bright your star is.

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

Where I came from, it was more shocking to be an atheist than to be transgender.

How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking, but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time.

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

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

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

There is some stuff on television that is shocking that it's on there, and shocking that it's not being censored. We run to that with torches and pitchforks and go after it. On Flavor Of Love, when a woman took a dump on the stairs, I mean, that's like J.R. being shot on Dallas, or like maybe the last episode of M*A*S*H. It's a milestone on television that's covered with chlamydia.

The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper and found a story that happened around here yesterday or the day before that's just as shocking as anything in my book.

Donald Trump is doing well. Trump is shocking everybody. He's shocking the Democrats. He's shocking the Republicans. He's shocking world. Contrast what's happened here in just the last three days with eight years of Barack Obama. We have had no apologizing. We've had no bowing. We've had a president of the United States actually tell the heads of state of countries where terrorism is rampant to get rid of it, to drive it out. We've had a president of the United States directly confront Iran where his our previous president threw everybody else overboard for Iran.

I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in the way that makes you change how you think about things. Those are the movies I like the best.

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

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

That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to the concept of radical constructivism - is that the only thing we can ever know about the real reality (if it even exists) is what it is not. It is only with the collapse of our constructions of reality that we first discover that the world is not the way we imagine.

I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking. That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety. I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and I'm quite happy with it.

I like how hip-hop is just shocking and fun.

There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the world and right under our noses or that there are villages in Nepal where there are no children left because they have all been kidnapped for sex trafficking, or that there are generations of slaves in some countries where indentured slavery passes from generation to generation and that kids grow into adults not knowing that another world - another life - exists?

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

We thought we'd last forever. Then, of course, we didn't, and that was shocking.

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

The ferociousness of some of the media is shocking.

I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

I don't see what's shocking about a man in a dress.

It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.

I love my mum and dad, but they were shocking providers and carers.

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

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.

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.

I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me.

If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us.

I believe that couture is not about shocking.

I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.

I think when real life interrupts fantasy, it's always shocking.

Im extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I dont try to be shocking. Im playful, and I know when something Im saying is maybe shocking, but its just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.

Shocking is easy. Shockingly brilliant, a bit more challenging.

I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking.

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

It's shocking the things we call love.

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems.

there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.

I love shocking people.

We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.