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Quotes About Shock

I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
~ Barry McGuire
Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
~ Talib Kweli
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
~ Anne Grant
I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'
~ Alexandre Aja
I love travelling, but I have to admit I didn't initially take to Agra in India. As soon as you arrive, someone wants to show you around, take your bags or sell you something - and it's just a bit of a culture shock. You just have to make the necessary mental adjustment to the setting.
~ Dexter Fletcher
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
~ Park Chan-wook
Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
~ Paul D. Boyer
They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again.
~ Don Everly
From spending ten years in hell and coming to this regime of kindness was a shock. It was so much of a shock, it was unbelievable. I was like an untamed animal, I couldn't accept it and I just wouldn't accept it.
~ Stephen Richards
After about five minutes had passed, I went outside and they'd gone. When I checked my hand to see if my knuckles were swelling or any bruising was coming up I got a shock, there was false tan on my knuckles! I still chuckle about that to this day.
~ Stephen Richards
As one of the motorbikes came towards me, I let a big heavy right go, and knocked the rider's head clean off his shoulders! Fucking hell, the guy's head was still in his helmet and it was clattering all the way down the road.
~ Stephen Richards
shit," he whispered as the words on the tiny screen blurred in front of him. He'd run
~ Stephen W. Frey
Son of a bitch! You're Steve Allen!
~ Steve Allen
It was very sad to hear that… After the car Kennedy was in… it hesitated and stopped there for a second or two… I
~ Steve Cameron
In the natural childbirth classes my wife and I took, the birthing process was represented by a hand puppet being pushed through a sock. So at the actual birth I was shocked to see all this blood. The thing I had prepared myself for was a lot of lint.
~ Steve Skrovan
The secular mind frequently doesn't face up to the full implications of its beliefs; art can provide a timely shock that results in a reassessment.
~ Steve Turner
There is a need for wisdom in art. Shock, surprise, novelty, and innovation helped to grab attention but are not substantial in themselves.
~ Steve Turner
Yes, boys and girls, today's near-death experience was brought to you by the number eight and the letters WTF!
~ Steve Vernon
Just like any other company, Samsung can fail, and if that happens, how will the South Korean economy overcome the shock? If we don't decrease our over-reliance on the chaebols and prepare to let smaller, dynamic start-ups fill the gaps in their place, it won't.
~ Kim Young-ha
Changing our consumer behaviour is similar to quitting smoking. Unless people are shocked into doing it, either by social disapproval or family disapproval or fear of the medical consequences, they'll just keep on smoking.
~ John Quelch
One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.
~ Peter Schiff
I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.
~ Rush Limbaugh
the first dead body I had ever seen
~ Michael Shellenberger
His mouth had already been hanging open, but it managed to hang open further as the tiny close-set peepers crowding his nose opened with the wide-eyed innocence of a newborn suffering its first gas pain.
~ Mickey Spillane