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Quotes About Shock

Just as I opened the door from the boys' floor, I stumbled onto Mr. Farrow and that freakishly unhot witch from downstairs, Mrs. Singer. Together. Standing at the landing on the tenantless girls' floor. They were kissing, and it wasn't one of those innocent oh-hello-you-frosty-and-cadaverous-old-hag-from-downstairs-so-nice-to-see-you-this-afternoon pecks on the cheek, either.
~ Andrew Smith
Yet I had not bargained for this, the girl with tears hanging on her cheeks like stuck pearls, her cunt a split fig below the great globes of her buttocks on which the knotted tails of the cat were about to descend, while a man in a black mask fingered with his free hand his prick, that curved upwards like a scimitar he held. The picture had a caption 'Reproof of curiosity.
~ Angela Carter
She's dead!" Marcia gasped. And then, much more dismayed, she cried, "She's dead on my sofa!
~ Angie Sage
They're coming back!" she yelled. Marcia jumped, lost the Projection completely and, far away at the Port, and her crew disappeared forever, much to the shock of a lone fisherman on the harbor wall.
~ Angie Sage
Mary hadn't said a word. She'd seemed frozen. It had been as if she were holding her breath.
~ Ann Cleeves
His face paled and he blinked violently as if he'd been slapped. She stepped away, expecting an angry outburst, but when he spoke it was almost in a whisper. 'Do you really think that badly of me?
~ Ann Cleeves
The shock of waking suddenly had made her muscles tense and she'd never been any good at relaxing.
~ Ann Cleeves
Since we found Mrs Lister's body in the pool.
~ Ann Cleeves
It was a shock to everyone when I became a rapper. Huge shock to everyone. But I knew it all along. I just didn't want to tell anybody cause then it's like, What if it doesn't work?
~ Lil Yachty
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
~ Bertrand Russell
For my equipment, we're not about running. We're about wheels, action sports, and that type of thing. So we want range of motion and shock absorption. The foot itself has 28 degrees of ankle motion as you press into it or you put weight into it. A typical running or walking foot has kind of around 10 to 12, at max, flex at the toe.
~ Mike Schultz
He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
When I was first named as Deputy Prime Minister, there was a feeling of shock that I should be chosen because I was labeled as being an ultra and very anti-Chinese.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
Even my family is shocked that I chose this profession.
~ Kriti Sanon
Going to the U.A.E. for the first time was a real cultural shock. Everything was different. People didn't speak my language, it was all new, a huge change. But I loved it.
~ Jain
My dad saw 'A Dirty Shame.' I felt bad about my father knowing what 'felching' was.
~ John Waters
My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.
~ Lily Allen
People who come through television, if they don't get distracted, they learn how to shoot fast. They don't get shocked. And if they know how to adjust to that and they think outside the box, then they'll be fine.
~ Tony Todd
I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
~ Sam Shepard
I think it's really important for actors to add some shock value to whatever they do. I think the audience gets bored very easily, and it's really important to keep experimenting.
~ Jacqueline Fernandez
I was absolutely astonished by an onslaught of comments expressing their absolute shock that IFLS is run by a woman.
~ Elise Andrew
'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
~ Naomi Klein
It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.
~ Graham Chapman
'Homeland' does have that ability to tear the rug out from under you.
~ Morgan Saylor