Quotes About Shock

I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. However, they soon returned

Un jeune américain de ma connaissance, homme très-entendu, m'a certifié à Londres qu'un jeune enfant bien sain, bien nourri, est, à l'âge d'un an, un aliment délicieux, très-nourrissant et très-sain, bouilli, rôti, à l'étuvée ou au four, et je ne mets pas en doute qu'il ne puisse également servir en fricassée ou en ragoût.

Big Ammachi was shocked to see how thin she had become, her hair suddenly white at the temples; it was such a troubling sight in one so young.

Did you just hit on her by calling her your cousin?" asks Sadie. "'Cause, damn!

Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious."

When relationships are determined by manipulation, by the need for control, they may possess a dreary, bickering kind of drama, but they cease to be interesting. They are repetitious; the shock of human possibilities has ceased to reverberate through them.

It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In terms of coherence, it makes your average David Lynch movie look like 'Burn Notice.'

I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.

There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.

Mr Melly had to be obscene to be believed

Freddy shits a brick

Brett has just shit his pants. He's not crying or whimpering, but he's so full of fear, it's as if his body is imploding.

She turned to John to share the joke, and he was transfixed, looking into the catastrophe of her sagging, bleary-eyed face.

A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.

It's really hard on the poor Skid Row bums. They are getting the shock of their lives. There they are, lying peacefully in the gutter, not bothering anybody, and they look up and see a man in a red and blue spider suit go by. It's enough to make them goon the wagon.

My god! It's a hamster with explosives taped around it's waist!

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn't have. There was a bit of a shock effect, but it probably helped the Europeans wake up to a new value.

I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'

'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

I'm not a real blond... Shocking.