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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.
How have we come to a place in society where millions of babies can be slaughtered and disposed of in the name of progress? Shocking but real.
I think Charlottesville was shocking for some, but it wasn't for me or for my family, I mean, because I grew up in 1980s Nashville.
One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.
One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.
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Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture.
The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.
I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.
I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turkey Neck.' They weren't wrong. I looked shocking.
Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion.
Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.
When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.
I got into the entertainment world and started modelling when I was 15. When I told my parents that was what I was going to do for a living, it was very shocking for them.
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.
I’m always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.
I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.
Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.
There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.
It's shocking when you start to grow up and realise that your parents had a life before you! But why would you? Sometimes you don't really have a need to.
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.
I think the PGA Award, when we won that, was so shocking to me. I thought, 'Absolutely no way.' I was barely listening when they were announcing it.
I don't think any comedy is ever shocking. I don't buy that. That's just what people brand it, when someone is saying something they don't like.
His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.
That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.
[Allen] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and relevant, especially [William] Burroughs.
There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.
We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.
The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.
It's something I've constantly found shocking - all this astounding talent amongst black women that never gets to be seen or heard.
Indeed, the Duke of Edinburgh's disdain for his eldest son was all the more shocking because he made little or no attempt to hide it.
What I find shocking is that there's this thought process that Hillary Clinton is going to be president of the United States, and to even think of Donald Trump is a joke.
I never thought 'Crook' wouldn't work with the audience - in fact, no actor ever has that in mind especially when it's a debut film. It was shocking initially but I had to move on.
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.
As a matter of fact, believe it or not guys, you can actually lose money in sports! I know that you'll find that shocking.
I had a brother who died early on - he was 23 when I was 19. And, boy, I certainly didn't expect that. That was utterly shocking.
It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
I still think that rookie season was the most shocking to everyone, at least in my hometown here. I mean, it was insane. They couldn't believe I was doing this.
Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
I think it's a bit shocking for people when pop stars say anything out of the safe zone.
It's a bit shocking when you show up in Africa or you're in the middle of Spain and there are people that know the words and the young kids singing along.
The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.
What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.
Frankly, it's a bit shocking to me the lengths government will go to to let little Rappler feel its power.
My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.
R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all.
I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.
It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.
I'd taken three years off to live as a normal person, so this was my first time back into it, and it was kind of shocking, but then it was fun.
