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Quotes About Shocking

What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.
~ Eric Betzig
In the workshop where I started to write fiction, you had to read your work in public. Most times, you read in a bar or coffeehouse where you'd be competing with the roar of the espresso machine. Or the football game on television. Music and drunk people talking. Against all this noise and distraction, only the most shocking, most physical, dark and funny stories got heard. Our test audience would never sit still for Barn-Raising Club.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual; and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come as a more or less shocking surprise.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Who'd have thought your screwball brother could have gone so serial-killer fucktwat insane?
~ Larissa Ione
What do you get when you cross Ted Kaczynski with Monica Lewinsky? A dynamite blowjob!
~ Celeste Ng
immense and shocking potential.
~ Celeste Ng
Resistance can be symbolic, but at its core it must also be empowering and even shocking, in the sense of awakening the people to the evils of the system and the terrifying end-result if we allow business as usual to continue. Resistance is rage at injustice and at the insanity of institutions that kill and exploit for money and power. Melding that rage with love is the art of activism.
~ Charles Derber
Volumnia hastens to express her opinion that the shocking people ought to be tried as traitors, and made to support the Party.
~ Charles Dickens
He gives up the ghost. A violent erection of the hanged sends gouts of sperm spouting through his death clothes on to the cobblestones. Mrs Bellingham, Mrs Yelverton Barry and the Honourable Mrs Mervy Talboys rush forward with their handkerchiefs to sop it up.)
~ James Joyce
usual nasal monotone. "The different profiles. How could a man who would set a girl on fire do it only once? How could that same person shoot someone from fifty yards away?" "What are you thinking, Sci?" "What if it's more than one piece of shit? What if it's more than one
~ James Patterson
Hell really has frozen over.
~ James Patterson
As her life became more unhappy, acting attracted Marie-Antoinette because it fulfilled unmet emotional needs. By all accounts, she was quite good in her little private theatricals. But her desire to be a heroine, both literally and figuratively, was shocking to the French.
~ Amanda Foreman
All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN.
~ Curtis Jackson
One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
~ Caitlin Doughty
I believe in the same manner at this moment; and I moreover believe, that any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be a true system.
~ Thomas Paine
The Girl With Many Eyes One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl who had many eyes. She was really quite pretty (and also quite shocking!) and I noticed she had a mouth, so we ended up talking. We talked about flowers, and her poetry classes, and the problems she'd have if she ever wore glasses. It's great to know a girl who has so many eyes, but you really get wet when she breaks down and cries.
~ Tim Burton
It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.
~ Robbie Coltrane
H]is 'philosophy' seemed to consist of anything that would be particularly annoying to the powers that be without being so shocking that they would fire him. He got the reputation among the students as an original and a rebel without having to pay the penalty for actually being either.
~ Orson Scott Card
She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight. --perhaps the best line from Shooter
~ Walter Dean Myers
You know what it's like, finding eight middle-aged guys having tantric sex with ostriches?
~ Warren Ellis
Yesterday, here in the middle of the City, I saw a wolf turn into a Russian ex-gymnast and hand over a business card that read YOUR OWN PERSONAL TRANSHUMAN SECURITY WHORE! STERILIZED INNARDS! ACCEPTS ALL CREDIT CARDS to a large man who had trained attack cancers on his face and possessed seventy-five indentured Komodo Dragons instead of legs. And they had sex. Right in front of me. And six of the Komodo Dragons spat napalm on my new shoes.
~ Warren Ellis
Big old fat naked naked dead guy flopped over a vacuum cleaner that was still chewing on his dick. This is my life, Trix.
~ Warren Ellis
Don't campaign to bring back the gallows – campaign to bring back the saw. The medieval saw. Raise the prisoner by his feet and then saw through him vertically, starting at his arsecrack and ending at his scalp. Suspending him upside down ensures a constant supply of blood to his brain, so he'll remain conscious throughout and provide all manner of usefully lurid screams.
~ Charlie Brooker