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Quotes About Shock

When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.
~ Eli Roth
Tess Bean had sent him flailing into the freezing cold water.
~ Sally Goldenbaum
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,
~ Samuel Johnson
Well, man, there ain't nothing I like to eat out better than pecker-poked pig-pussy!
~ Samuel R. Delany
But then Klaudia's lips curled ino a conniving smile."Actually, Aria, I'm going to fuck your boyfriend. Tonight." Aria started at her. It felt like Klaudia had just punched her in the throat. " Excuse me?" Klaudia scooted closer to Aria. "I'm going to fuck your boyfried," she said again -in textbook-perfect English. " Tonight . And there's nothing you can do about it.
~ Sara Shepard
Toby twisted around. "Boo." Emily screamed.
~ Sara Shepard
Holy shit," Spencer said. She held her T-shirt up against her naked chest. "What is it? Wren asked. Spencer stepped back. Her throat was dry. "Oh," she croaked. "Oh," Wren echoed. Melissa stood outside the window, her hair messay and Medusa-like, her face absolutely expressionless. A cigarette shook in her tiny, usually steady fingers. "I didn't know you smoked," Spencer finally said.
~ Sara Shepard
Happy?" Delilah spluttered. "About someone being dead? Are you serious?
~ Sara Shepard
That was Sanjay Banerjee... He just found Nisha facedown in their swimming pool. She's dead. - Mr. Mercer
~ Sara Shepard
I'd much rather go out having America shocked than having America go, 'Eh, it was his time.'
~ Colton Dixon
Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
~ Michael Caine
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
~ Harold Brodkey
From time to time historians need to be shocked.
~ Peter Burke
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.
~ Susan Sontag
The first time I saw a picture of Elvis - I was in a state of shock, because I couldn't believe that a human being could be so beautiful.
~ Gottfried Helnwein
Kalbi patlayiverdi.
~ Margaret Weis
We've always found that with people being so desensitized, things have to be really shocking and have to punch you in the face to get your attention. Then, once you've got their attention, you can say something they might remember
~ Marilyn Manson
Then we dared Pogo to cut his wrist with a knife, which he did several times.
~ Marilyn Manson
You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo
~ Mario Puzo
It's one of the biggest scandals of life, to learn that the cruelest thing someone could say to you was you were a terrible kisser.
~ Marisha Pessl
Ouch! What are you doing, Karl, you broke my skull!
~ Marjane Satrapi
I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Without heat or shock, it can't be done. I believe that's why sexual love, which needn't be, is so intensely intertwined with sin.
~ Mark Helprin
Mortality is like the cold. It cannot be altered by human conceit or solidarity, and at the end you will be on your knees, in shock and amazement, and then you'll have only one sword, one shield, one great thing to carry you through. Alessandro waited to hear what that was, but his father would not say. If you don't discover it yourself, it will be nothing more than an exhortation from me.
~ Mark Helprin
I want to take my readers on a ride, but, in the end, I want to throw them from the carriage.
~ Mark Towse