Quotes About Shock

It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.

The pilot came back and said he had just heard that Kennedy was shot.

Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

R-rated comedies make as much money as PG-13. And I think the audiences wanna be shocked. Especially with comedy.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

Being southern and doing bobsled was difficult from the standpoint that I had no idea how to handle the cold and how to dress in the cold, let alone warm up and compete in the cold - so it was a definite shock. I didn't even own a coat when I first started bobsledding!

In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

If someone had told me I'd spend the first night of my honeymoon watching another woman giving my husband head—and liking it—a few years before, or even a few weeks before, I'd have thought they were crazy.

Stephanie Mines is brilliant in her ability to articulate the complexities of shock and trauma, along with the framework for healing that she has developed. This makes her classes deeply gratifying and inspiring. I now have invaluable tools that support me in caring for myself, as well as skills and a new perspective that helps me in my care of others.

The Macks. They left." "Left?" Samuel asked. "For California, I guess. The whole family." Birdie pressed her lips together and dragged her palms across the rough wood behind her. There was nowhere for her shock to settle, a slow-motion spinning as the realization rose up and throbbed behind her eyes. She sat down in the weeds and tried to feel the splinters burrowing into the pads of her hands, but the pain was not enough. She

For an instant his mind went completely blank as all the blood left his head at the image.

I eat the hearts of girls and puke slugs and snails.

He slammed the door and ran blindly down the corridor, grabbing at handles. What exactly had he seen? They had been eating with their bare hands, but somehow the only thought he could hold on to was a kind of sickened gratitude that he had been unable to see their faces.

many of his pranks involved electric shock—these stunts gain interest in retrospect, knowing as we do of Edison's future work on the ultimate instrument of shock, the electric chair. In

This morning I put ground glass in my wife's pancakes.

The doctor told me, 'You have breast cancer.' I heard the cancer part first - it was only later that I heard the breast part. I couldn't believe it.

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

People never cease to amaze me.

The things that repulse people never ceases to amaze me.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.

I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.

When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'