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Quotes About Shock

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
~ Mae West
I did an imitation of him to make the crew laugh. To my shock, there was Cary Grant behind me. He got very angry. I was sent all the way from RKO to David Selznick's office and was told not to do it anymore. I thought to myself, 'I must have been pretty good to make him that angry.'
~ Shirley Temple
Oh my God." I fell into my usual chair, stunned—but also not—that the news had made the rounds so quickly. "You mean it didn't even take an hour for it to get back here?
~ Rosemary Clement-Moore
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.
~ Rowan Williams
Shock therapy has arguably created a large block of politicized people ready to vote for someone, perhaps a militarist, a quasifascist, or an old-style Communist, to undo the transitional order that has harmed them.
~ Russell Hardin
I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.
~ Ruth Warrick
She felt bones in her cheek shatter with the impact.
~ Ryan Seek
everybody puts their balls on her!
~ Ryan Williams
Our unity shocked them and we should continue to shock the white man by working together." (Set the Night on Fire)
~ Malcolm X
Holy shit whistles there are real live werewolves, my boyfriend is one of them, and my reaction to all this was to pull my pants down and get pounded? And that's when he wants to tell me he loves me?
~ Mandy M. Roth
Holy Lesbos, Batman!
~ Marc Acito
When you focus on details like this - close up, really clear, totally useless - you know you're in shock
~ Margaret Atwood
Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means.
~ Margaret Atwood
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.
~ Margaret Atwood
It's like a fart in church.
~ Margaret Atwood
Toxic shock was ominous because they never really said how you got it, or why, or what happened when you did get it. It just struck you dead in the cunt.
~ Margaret Cho
Archie's carrying him to the vacant lot near Belle's. He's dead. Shot through the head.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Ashley to marry Melanie Hamilton! Oh, it couldn't be true!
~ Margaret Mitchell
It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.
~ Dave Eggers
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
~ George Bernard Shaw
No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.
~ George W. Bush
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
~ Pearl S. Buck
shot the kids, and I watched—Yeah, I watched. That's right, I watched, 'cause that son
~ Ann Rule
She stared in shock. There was nobody there!
~ Anne Digby