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Quotes About Shocking

She'd been killed by her own personal assistant, news that Charlotte believed had come as a terrible shock to everyone in the city except the thousands of other personal assistants who dreamed, daily, of doing the same thing.
~ Brenda Cullerton
This man welcomes sinners and eats with them," Jesus confronted the Pharisees and scribes not only with the return of the prodigal son, but also with the resentful elder son. It must have come as a shock to these dutiful religious people.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
When you put the book down you feel as if God's own angels had made pipi in your hair.
~ Henry Miller
I was at a community event in Paris a few years ago when a group of young girls came on the stage dressed and dancing in a very risque way. They were only 11 years old, and their performance was shocking.
~ Maimouna Doucoure
I'd like to create a character that is completely appalling, that it would make the audience tremble.
~ Choi Woo-shik
On the morning of Wednesday 13 March 1996, Thomas West Hamilton shattered the peaceful country town of Dunblane, Stirlingshire, with a fusillade of gunfire that reverberated round the world.
~ Stephen Richards
Shocking Paris,
~ Steve Stern
People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not writing about all the lovely things that there are, which I do see as well - but there is a lot of outrageousness around, slightly covered up. And obviously, it's fun to take that a little bit further.
~ Julia Davis
I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.
~ Karan Johar
With 'Only God Forgives,' what's great about that movie is it just freaked so many people out.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
So, I was a fan of 'Luther' from the first reading of the script and watching the first series. I think the actors in it are just brilliant, and I had never seen a black lead in the U.K. for so many years. That was quite a shocking moment for me.
~ Wunmi Mosaku
I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.
~ Steve Almond
Ich glaube, dass keiner mich für grausam halten wird, weil ich nun eines der alten Richtschwerter in beide Hände nahm und die Katze in zwei Teile spaltete, während sie so dasaß.
~ Bram Stoker
You've pulled off some shocking upsets in the past, but only a fool would bet on you this time. So I will.
~ Brandon Mull
Do you know what Ed Gein said about women? [...] 'When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right.' I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. What does the other part of him think? Hamlin asks tentatively. What her head would look like on a stick
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Before I leave, the Eurotrash girl tells me she likes my gazelleskin wallet. I tell her I would like to tit-fuck her and then maybe cut her arms off, but the music, George Michael singing "Faith," is too loud and she can't hear me. Back upstairs I find Patricia where I left her
~ Bret Easton Ellis
You are a fucking ugly bitch I want to stab to death and play around with your blood," but I'm smiling.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Leonard Read noted admiringly that her simple and unobjectionable principle that no one ought to initiate physical force against another would, if applied "to present-day practices . . . be shocking to many persons.
~ Brian Doherty
My Less Than Secret Life' by Jonathan Ames was a revelation, as shocking as it is funny.
~ Richard Herring
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
~ Bill Condon
He looked around, saw himself mirrored in that man walking back with his rifle. And suddenly, it seemed possible to him that we might love ourselves the most when we are suffering and seen to suffer. The pursuits of men seemed only the more shocking, if this were true.
~ Karen Fisher
Lady, you are one sick fuck.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Sin never seems quite as shocking when it is known only to us; when we see how it looks or sounds to another, it is magnified ten times over.
~ Gary L. Thomas