Quotes About Shock

President Trump says his highest priority is America and the American people. The fact that this idea has been met with shock is itself shocking; if America's success is not the president's goal, what is? Is it looking good in photo-ops, while debt grows, jobs dwindle, bureaucracy reigns supreme, and the American people suffer?

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

I think it is OK to surprise people.

One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so founded on surprise.

The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment of shock, they decided to severely punish those participating in what they called an act of disobedience to authority.

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

I think for a horror experience to be really scary, something has to be a bit of a shock and a surprise. It's like something you've never experienced before.

Pop shouldn't be a comfortable slipper. It should shock and surprise you and confront your expectations.

I'm excited to bring in a new fan base for 'Charmed' and to surprise and shock the old ones as well - bridge the gap between both. Maybe I'll get some superpowers!

There is no doubt I have offended many people. No doubt, also, that I have blasphemed. I sometimes try to offend as part of my routine - after all, the essence of humour, even in a child, is the effort to shock and surprise.

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.

Every author dreams of the kind of attention that 'Beautiful Children' has received in the press. Obviously, it's a shock whenever it happens. So yeah, I'm as surprised as everybody else.

When I was first on 'Dancing With The Stars', people were really shocked and surprised.

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

I want people to be surprised.

When I watch television, I want to be surprised.

I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

It bothers me when people say 'shock comic' or 'gross-out' because that was only one type of comedy I did. There was prank comedy. Man-on-the-street-reaction comedy. Visually surreal comedy. But you do something shocking, and that becomes your label.

Why, I'll be a monkey's uncle. I'll be a snake's daddy. I'll be a mickey finn at a woman's-club lunch.

Sure they're animals. You think you just found out a new principle? Sometimes I wonder just how naive you really are. The French lords and ladies used to screw after the guillotinings. The old Romans used to stuff each other during the gladiatorial matches. That's entertainment, Garraty. It's nothing new.