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Quotes About Shocking

But what about the children, Lewis? I can hear some of you asking. What about the children? It's more disturbing to hear adults talking about having seen a tit as shocking and disturbing and indecent than it is for children to see one.
~ Lewis Niles Black
If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of Thrones,' it's nothing. But it is shocking because it's so real and grounded. The characters could live next door to you - they're not in a remote fantasy world.
~ James Norton
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
~ Damien Hirst
Being shocking and cruel is a commerce. It's an actual valued skill now. The thing that really annoys me, the perception of it is that it takes intelligence, and it doesn't.
~ Bobcat Goldthwait
In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.
~ Edwidge Danticat
I actually think I'm still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking.
~ Julia Davis
It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.
~ Tom Felton
it was alarming even to look at his face.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Look, I know everything is shitty right now, but if you don't stop acting like such a bitch, someones gonna fuck that pussy on your face.
~ Tucker Max
Um, I can predict your weather a year in advance. It's going to … wait for it … oh, this is pretty shocking … it's going to SNOW! And then a couple of days later … you're not going to believe it … snow again! And then, wait, this one's a bit tricky … hang on to your tails, everyone … it looks like we're in for about three hundred and sixty-five more days of … great moons! MORE SNOW!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die.
~ Frank Zappa
Lengths of gut are wound around both his arms, long strands of intestines, glistening and dripping. Along his legs several ears have been pinned to the fabric of his trousers.
~ Darren Shan
Baldacci has crafted another terrific tale with two great protagonists. Just when the story line seems to veer into familiar areas, Baldacci steers it into another shocking direction. This is the best book yet in the series."—Associated
~ David Baldacci
Lenz tells Green how once he was at a Halloween party where a hydrocephalic woman wore a necklace made of dead gulls.
~ David Foster Wallace
Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
~ William Shakespeare
I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.
~ Christopher Moore
By the hairy balls of Jesus
~ Hilary Mantel
She's clearly shocked by my behavior. She should be. My behavior is shocking.
~ Holly Black
She enjoys thinking deliciously shocking thoughts from time to time.
~ Liane Moriarty
When she looked up Tony was already walking toward the pool gate. As he lifted his arm to open it, his shorts suddenly slid down to his knees to reveal the entirety of his buttocks. "Fuck!" he said with deep feeling. Frances stared. What in the world? The man had tattoos of bright yellow smiley faces on both his butt cheeks. It was extraordinary. It was like discovering he was wearing a secret clown suit beneath his clothes.
~ Liane Moriarty
You boys is washed up and Im shitting on em like two girls in one cup.
~ Lil Wayne
Absolutely spine-chilling stuff, with some shocking glimpses into the darkest corners of humanity: we guarantee you'll be bingeing the whole thing in a day.
~ Lisa Jewell
how accepting children can be of the oddest scenarios. But still, seeing it now, in black and white, it really is quite shocking.
~ Lisa Jewell
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
~ Quentin Tarantino