Quotes About Shock

If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

When I see two women kissing, my only physical reaction is a strong desire to vomit in both of their mouths.

Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.

There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.

It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.

It's good to give people a jolt. If they're expecting one thing, it's important to give them something else. If you do something startling, audiences might at first freak out, but then they start to think, 'This is not going to be conventional. I'm going to enjoy this.'

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

Holy shit! It wasn't them; it was him!

The shocked gloomy aftermath of death pressed a heavy hand upon the house.

I think that it can be assumed that no adults are ever really 'shocked' - that being shocked is always a pose.

Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.

If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

I don't know that I'm not normal, because usually, when I tell people the things I do, either their jaw drops or they look at me shocked, but I'm sure I do normal things - everyone eats, that kind of stuff.

If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?

I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by defeat and shock, inside my head was another universe: I now understood as an elemental fact of life that while I was here, inside my body was a soul, a meaning, that all things were made of desire, touch, and love, that what I was suffering was composed of the same elements.

He was discovered with his feet stuck to the ceiling in the bathroom with his head stuffed in the toilet...

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition." —Monty Python's Flying Circus

Christ in a crinoline!

The roar of the pistol in his face chopped it off and the size of the silence that followed was enormous.