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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I know in our mainstream culture, the loudest voices and the most shocking voices are the ones that get the noise.
You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.
It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.
If grace isn't shocking and countercultural and scandalous and a little ridiculous, then it's not Grace.
I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.
It's really shocking to see what the military can do, strip you of any personality, turn you into an aggressive, sociopathic sadist before even going into a battlefield.
Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.
I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.
Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.
My reading with RuPaul was actually, for me, on a personal level, one of my favorites and the most shocking. This is someone I've wanted to read for a long time and so when he was standing there I nearly fainted.
And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.
Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
Its shocking to come from doing freestyles to having the No. 4 album in the country. It pushes me to do better and better so I can get to No. 1.
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.
Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet again.
Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.
I think my music is a little shocking to some people because my voice is very traditional-sounding, and my music is not.
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.
I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.
The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.
I have four boys aged 10 and under. Fatherhood is lovely but there is this slightly shocking moment when you realise it is not something you just wear and take off.
Fast cutting, loud music, blood spewing everywhere, and gunshots permeating the scenes does not necessarily make for a shocking movie.
My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.
It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.
The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous.
Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.
I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.
I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.
I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.
I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.
At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.
People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.
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 think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.
That Asian guy is really good at kicking. Shocking. Someone is pressing 'A' really fast somewhere.
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.
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.
I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."
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
It was simultaneously refreshing and a bit shocking to see how cavalierly most Aussies toss out slurs and insults about nonwhites.
Being shocking and cruel is a commerce. It's an actual valued skill now. The thing that really annoys me, the perception of it is that it takes intelligence, and it doesn't.
Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.
Rock and ambient music might as well reside on opposite sides of the galaxy, so it's almost shocking when a band like Deerhunter melds the two so effectively.
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.
It's superb, definitely. Something that is new to me, that is shocking. I got the news last night about 3 in the morning, and I don't think I even went back to bed.
It's shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability - and it's the basis of their business!
I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.
I like shocking, but I don't like to shock as an automatic process. Sometimes it happens, but it's not my main drive.
I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.
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.
People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
I thought that Donald Trump's ascendancy would end when he attacked John McCain, saying he's not a war hero. I found that shocking, for him to say that.
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
