Quotes About Shocking

And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.

If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.

The idea of what's acceptable and what's shocking, that's where I investigate. I mean, you can't be on 'Top Gear,' where your only argument is that it's all just a joke and anyone who takes offence is an example of political correctness gone mad, and then not accept the counterbalance to that.

Mientras Hitler pretendía instituir un Reich milenario a través del genocidio de todos los judíos, en Turingia había un tal Lamberty que aspiraba a lo mismo mediante bailes populares, canciones y cabriolas en general. Cada redentor tenía su propio estilo. Nada ni nadie resultaba sorprendente; la capacidad de asombro era algo que habíamos perdido hacía ya tiempo.

If she were not very careful, she would fall in love with him. And would not that be a shocking thing?

A shocking humiliation, is it not? he said. What are we going to do about it, Allie? Marry each other as a consolation?

He looked windblown and out of breath and ... virile. What a horrid, shocking word. Where had that thought come from?

saw a large fire burning on a hearth. In its rosy glow, three strange creatures were weaving at a big loom. Jack caught his breath. Their appearance was shocking.

Heil Hitler, Y'all

It was all so crazy... as weird as finding out that someone had written a book about my life or something.

When a genocide is carried out, only a fraction of the population, usually a police force, military unit, or militia, actually commits the murders.127 In the 1st century CE, Tacitus wrote, "A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of a few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

Violence pervaded their entertainment as well. Tuchman describes two of the popular sports of the time: "Players with hands tied behind them competed to kill a cat nailed to a post by battering it to death with their heads, at the risk of cheeks ripped open or eyes scratched out by the frantic animal's claws....

There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!

It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.

A little over a year." You'd have thought, after the events of the last half hour, that I was beyond shocking by now. A little over a year wasn't a fling, a random sexual indiscretion. It was a relationship. It meant that Jen and Wade had an anniversary.

Terrorism, like theater, is a competition for audience. Shocking events are designed to capture attention, polarize, and provoke overreactions from their targets.

Ask anyone where they were when they heard of Diana's death, and they won't hesitate, because nobody can forget. Along with 9/11, it remains the most poleaxeing public event, news so shocking it made me shake, and drove everything else from my mind for days.

Hitler had the right idea, he was just an underachiever.

And then you come to the 1910 to 1912 era, and . . . Jesus H. Christ, what is happening here? Axe murders start appearing like dandelions. Murdering your neighbors with an axe became the nation's fourth-largest sport.

It is sad and shocking to think that victory and the lives of thousands of men are pawns to the 'fear of They,' and the writings of a group of unprincipled reporters, and the weak-kneed congressmen, Patton wrote in his journal. 'But so it is.

Some things I see on television, I think, 'Oh my gosh, they're showing that now?' wow.

I really don't understand because I love opera, because I respect the Michelangelos and da Vincis, that it should be shocking because I am a wrestler. Because I am a wrestler does it mean that I am some kind of a robot who only knows to go into the squared circle and pound on somebody?

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.