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Quotes About Shocking

At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.
~ Larry Clark
No offense, but your mom is strange. She's a hit MILF, but totally off the wall." I take my hand back."Eww! Colin, you just called my mom a MILF! I'm completely grossed out!
~ Simone Elkeles
Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.
~ Sir James Matthew Barrie
It's all based on saying the shocking thing. We used to have a great time going to Hollywood parties and saying 'I think George Bush is doing a great job.' We'd clear out the room. I used to love it.
~ Trey Parker
I could tell you tales of priestly behavior that would make you shudder.
~ Bernard Cornwell
queasiness. Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals—that body of psychic custom and public sanctions that draws a vague boundary between what is emotionally and spontaneously intolerable and what is not.
~ Susan Sontag
I still think that rookie season was the most shocking to everyone, at least in my hometown here. I mean, it was insane. They couldn't believe I was doing this.
~ Cody Bellinger
I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane.
~ Harriet A. Washington
I got left for Mr. Bean. I found out a year after we split up. I opened the newspaper and there was a full-page story. No one else in the history of time has ever been left for Mr. Bean.
~ James Acaster
We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.
~ Nick Denton
The truth--a hideous spectacle!
~ Conrad Aiken
That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.
~ Ricky Gervais
What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.
~ Michael Cunningham
The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again.
~ Mark Hoppus
Jesus, I smell like Jeffrey Dahmer's refrigerator.
~ Bill Bryson
Criminality was so widespread that its practitioners split into fields of specialization. Some became coney catchers, or swindlers (a coney was a rabbit reared for the table and thus unsuspectingly tame); others became foists (pickpockets), nips, or nippers (cutpurses), hookers (who snatched desirables through open windows with hooks), abtams (who feigned lunacy to provide a distraction), whipjacks, fingerers, cross biters, cozeners, courtesy men, and many more. Brawls were shockingly common.
~ Bill Bryson
Die Menschen in der Urzeit haben oft Dinge getan, die nicht einfach nur überraschend, sondern geradezu unfasslich sind.
~ Bill Bryson
The tweets were not incidental to his presidency. They were central. He ordered printouts of his recent tweets that had received a high number of likes, 200,000 or more. He studied them to find the common themes in the most successful. He seemed to want to become more strategic, find out whether success was tied to the subject, the language or simply the surprise that the president was weighing in. The most effective tweets were often the most shocking.
~ Bob Woodward
What I saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart seemed to stand still.
~ Bram Stoker
Abortion is one of the most shocking, yet entirely logical, extensions of this obsession with comfort, convenience and luxury. Less dramatic, but just as deadly to millions of lost souls in our world, is our unwillingness to make even small sacrifices to reach them with the Gospel.
~ K.P. Yohannan
1951, he was shown the Air Force's strategic war plan—which called for the obliteration of Soviet cities on a scale that shocked him. It was a war plan of criminal genocide.
~ Kai Bird
How are you?" Rosa shrugged her shoulders. "My sister turned into a giant snake last night. And your cousin Tano—" "Second cousin." "He was there too. He was a tiger. I recognized him from his eyes. Then I fainted." She looked at him. "How does that sound?
~ Kai Meyer
The most shocking fact about Summer Bay is not that it looks so much like Brittas Bay. It is that it seems to be almost exclusively populated with Irish people.
~ Vogue Williams