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Quotes About Shock

I enjoy scaring people.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I enjoy scaring people too much to let it go!
~ Neil Marshall
I remember in a film of mine, though both my co-star and I were newcomers, he got far better paid than me. I was shocked and appalled. I actually asked him what different are you doing that you are getting better paid!
~ Aditi Rao Hydari
Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.
~ Maria Semple
America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.
~ Pamela Druckerman
I love it when people send me body parts.
~ Kesha
I literally pass out when I see blood.
~ Nina Dobrev
Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.
~ Peter Mayle
Quinn thought for a moment and then he said, "I don't have any papers." True enough, thought Whitfield, and for that matter you don't have any pants either, and so forth. And not much brains left, is my feeling, and I must say a sad shock you are to me and my cinema knowledge of the American gangster.
~ Peter Rabe
He was particularly disgruntled to see what he had taken for a bundle of old rags on the tracks outside was a human body. He did not say "Not again" (what he said was "Shit on this"), but "Not again" was what he meant.
~ Peter Straub
Serial killers very rarely, if ever, let people into their confidence. Murder is their secret and they guard it carefully. This is one of several reasons police agencies have difficulty apprehending serial murderers: they keep their mouths shut about who they really are, and after the truth does come out everyone is always shocked.
~ Philip Carlo
She glanced at it and her eyes widened a few f-stops.
~ Philip Kerr
A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
~ Anna Freud
It would come as quite a shock to my younger self that my first job was modelling. I was scouted, aged 18, when I went to Paris to visit my older sister, Yvonne, who was at uni there.
~ Sara Cox
I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.
~ Colm Toibin
My dad died suddenly. He had a heart attack aged 52. When the hospital phoned to tell me, it felt like when you take your sunglasses off and the light changes. A visual thing happened, which must have been shock or adrenaline. It changed everything.
~ Roisin Conaty
If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there with our popcorn just chuckling.
~ George A. Romero
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
~ Jules Renard
The shock of Trumpism has made me rethink what the conservative movement was about and who our allies were and what our assumptions were.
~ Charlie Sykes
I've been on shows that go for shock value.
~ Daphne Zuniga
I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
~ Sam Kinison
Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
~ Iris Apfel
It's easy to scare people. It's easy to shock them. But making people laugh and making them feel is a big challenge.
~ Steve Carr