Quotes About Shock

Grounding you obviously don't work. Neither does taking away your allowance. I guess the only punishment that'll teach you a good enough lesson is if you sleep with Gramma's corpse tonight.

They both had sub-machine guns. Yes, actual sub-machine guns. I couldn't believe it.

I expected to see a complete horror show. But I didn't know whether it would be a "pile of severed heads in the corner" horror show, or an "intestines hanging from the ceiling like party banners" horror show, or a good old-fashioned "floors soaked with blood" horror show. It

The chef grabs the guy's wife/girlfriend by the hair, bashes her down on the table, and slams the meat cleaver into the back of her neck. I don't think she even ordered a turkey sandwich!

Malcolm gaped at me as if a giant erect penis had suddenly sprouted from my forehead. "I know, it's a lot to take in," I said.

My blood ran ice-cold as I entered Human Resources.

The shock of finding a familiar word in an unfamiliar setting.] A SS man would examine us. Whenever he found a weak one, a musulman as we called them, he would write his number down: good for the crematory.

Didn't I tell you about her? She stuck her fingers in her vagina and then rubbed the stuff behind her ears. She said it made the men crazy." "That is so disgusting," Alice says. "I know." "God!" "I know." "Did you try it?" she asks. "Of course." "Did it work?" "Not for me.

The second exploded like a bomb, all by itself.

Getting out of a marriage is rough, though, and not just for the legal / financial complications or the massive lifestyle upheaval. (As my friend Deborah once advised me wisely: Nobody ever died from splitting up furniture.) It's the emotional recoil that kills you, the shock of stepping off the track of a conventional lifestyle and losing all the embracing comforts that keep so many people on that track forever.

It's the emotional recoil that kills you, the shock of stepping off the track of a conventional lifestyle and losing all the embracing comforts that keep so many people on that track forever.

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

Tony sat down with a thud. You're going to marry Schmidt?

The great brandMade lightnings in the splendor of the moon,And flashing round and round, and whirled in an arch,Shot like a streamer of the northern morn,Seen where the moving isles of winter shockBy night, with noises of the northern sea,So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur.

catching his breath. He felt as if his spine had suddenly become hollow and someone had filled it with particles of ice.

When pre-planned theatre is replacing politics, she said, and we're propelled into shock mode, trained to wait for whatever the next shock will be, served up shock on a 24 hour newsfeed like we're infants living from nipple to sleep to nipple to sleep

Polly was always shocked to learn how complacent she was, when she was certain of her good intentions.

A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting-Marcel Duchamp

They were blown off my feet when the South Tower collapsed

He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).

Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Et d'ailleurs l'horreur est devenue banale.

The day of my wedding, I got a FedEx in the mail. It was my termination papers. I was fired... on my wedding day.