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Quotes About Shocking

That chap looks as if he ate a girl's kidney last night.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
Eventually, the storm blew itself out, because it is in the character of these strange times that any outrage, regardless of its unprecedented dimensions and horror, is inevitably followed by another outrage more novel and more shocking still.
~ Dean Koontz
The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.
~ Dennis Lehane
The mind can find the information so shocking or threatening that it rejects the truth of it, rendering the information nonsense. The brain then tries to make sense of the nonsense by filing it under comedy – just
~ Unknown
Damnation, she's bleeding!" he roared, the sight shocking him into action. He spun around, nearly colliding with his flag-captain, his flag-lieutenant, the first lieutenant, and a little midshipman who looked as though he was about to piss his breeches. "Damn your eyes, Colin, how the hell could you simply let her walk off the flagship?!
~ Unknown
The idea that large historical events are determined by luck is profoundly shocking, although it is demonstrably true.
~ Daniel Kahneman
There's nothing that can shock me anymore, but at this point, Trump's made it very clear how his temperament is, how his personality is, what his level of intellectual depth is when it comes to policy, and he's made it abundantly clear that he's utterly unqualified to be president - no matter what your political views are.
~ John Legend
What's now shocking is I can't say anything publicly without it having a life. Not because I have extraordinary views but because people are keen on conflict, so they'll make that the story.
~ Peter Capaldi
To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.
~ Cam Gigandet
N.W.A were the audio-documentarians of their time. They were trying to shock people with the violence of their language and the subjects they were talking about. The fact that they dressed in guerilla outfits like the Black Panthers made them shocking by their appearance as well.
~ Jerry Heller
I feel like the world gets so consumed and gobbled up by action, and the pace of life is so frantic, and people feel like, in order to move somebody, you have to do something shocking or violent or something insane and fast.
~ Jim James
found him in our bed with Mallory, wearing my favorite cowboy hat." "Wait a minute, who was wearing your favorite cowboy hat, Mallory or the dude." "The dude, but he was wearing it on his Johnson." "Eww. Low class.
~ Lori Wilde
Violent, intentional, death still surprised him, whether of a man or mouse.
~ Louise Penny
Farley once stuck his ass out the window of the seventeenth floor at 30 Rock and took a shit. Another time, in front of twenty or twenty-five people in a very crowded writers' room—mixed company, women, men—Farley came in naked. He has his dick tucked between his legs and he was doing Jame Gumb from Silence of the Lambs. He took a golf club and shoved it about three inches up his ass, then pulled the golf club out and started licking it.
~ Unknown
I never thought anything I did was shocking. If you can't take it for 20 minutes, you try living' it for 20 or 40 years.
~ Lydia Lunch
Jenny Fields discovered that you got more respect from shocking other people than you got from trying to live your own life with a little privacy.
~ John Irving
the visitors to that questionable museum would defecate into their garish tourist outfits
~ John Kennedy Toole
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
~ John Lloyd
You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.
~ Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
Sick and perverted always appeals to me.
~ Madonna
T. Cluck, the head rooster, had just made a shocking revelation.
~ John R. Erickson
Like Ward Cleaver finding out that June had
~ John Sandford
David Birkmann? I can't believe it. It's like saying a duck did it.
~ John Sandford
I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
~ William S. Burroughs