Quotes About Shock

Because seeing someone's heart ripped out, presumably for the first time, is something a person should accept naturally, like finding out there's no Santa Clause.

It's like a jolt of electric, but worse.

We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?

If you don't scare the neighbors while copulating, I'm afraid you're doing something terribly wrong.

Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.

The train hit her with the sound of a meat-filled hefty bag smacking the pavement, and the effect was much the same, I guess. (Dark City Lights)

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

I want to be strong and empowered. I want to shock everybody.

to express our dream about life in words is not easy but to show it with an example will surprise a lot of people and give them a shock.

You really got him!" Gertie yelled. "Holy crap! I ate a bug. Jeez, someone get some mouthwash. Gah! I ate another one.

Besides, have you seen the price on a good bottle of scotch? Good Lord, I almost fainted.

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

If flowers were boogers, I'd pick a few big ones and flick them on your grave.

I want to keep a human mouth on my coffee table. It'll be a great conversation starter.

Let me tell you: Theroux would shit himself.

And the man rose and put a foot upon it and, raising his face to the heavens, voiced a horrid cry —the victory cry of the bull ape. Corrie was suddenly terrified of this man who had always seemed so civilized and cultured. Even the men were shocked. Suddenly recognition lighted the eyes of Jerry Lucas. John Clayton, he said, Lord Greystoke— Tarzan of the Apes! Shrimp's jaw dropped. Is dat Johnny Weissmuller? he demanded.

It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man. His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger.

ON FRIDAY, 25 August, Roosevelt shocked most of his countrymen by dropping to the floor of Long Island Sound in one of the Navy's six new submarines, appropriately named the Plunger. He remained beneath the surface (lashed with heavy rain) long enough to watch fish swim past his window. Then, taking the controls, he essayed a few movements himself, including one which brought the ship to the surface rear end up.

snick! snick! snick! "Lordy, this is fun!" After a lot more snickin', all them fingers'n toes'd been clipped right off, an' Dicky could see 'em sittin' there on the ground. Weren't much blood, though, on account'a how tight Balls'd tied the wrists'n ankles. "Lookit! The big dumb cracker's passin' out.

Sissy looked at the shot glass full of pig semen and threw it back neat.

His penis swelled in his pants to the extent that it felt like a hamster that had died and entered rigor mortis.

Morris chopped off the girl's hand with a hatchet then guttered laughter. The poor mulato wailed, her stump pumping. What'choo do that for! Cutton bellowed. He hadn't even gotten his trousers off before Morris had pulled this move.

Earl, who seemed to be in an almost perpetual state of amazement at the things he said, shook his head again.

I know' said Patrick. 'It was a terrible shock to me when I realized I was getting too old to die young anymore.