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Quotes About Shocking

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.
~ Jim Dale
But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The vampire may foster quickened heartbeats and levitated hair. But is he worse than the parent who gave to society a neurotic child who became a politician?
~ Richard Matheson
Holy unanticipated occurrences!
~ Kate DiCamillo
When I was doing the research for Fall of Giants I was shocked to realize that the First World War was a war that nobody wanted. No European leader on either side intended it to happen. But the emperors and prime ministers, one by one, made decisions—logical, moderate decisions—each of which took us a small step closer to the most terrible conflict the world had ever known.
~ Ken Follett
Nu este nimic mai scandalos decât o femeie scandaloas?.
~ Ken Follett
It's simply cunting,
~ William Peter Blatty
How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.
~ William Shatner
he had bought a ticket for the High Holy Day services being held in the Shrine Auditorium. He walked in expecting to find a welcoming communal atmosphere; instead, the first thing they did was raise funds for some cause. He was shocked—and stood up and walked out. His experience had been that a shul was a place for a community of people to come together to celebrate meaningful rituals. This was more like the department-store version of religious observance.
~ William Shatner
unsettling, like seeing Stalin on a skateboard.
~ David Nicholls
And don't put a bunch of bullshit in my mouth, or get cute and try to make me look stupid. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go to the salon to have my pubic hair straightened and dyed white so that my dick looks like Santa Claus." He closed the door, farting loudly all the way to his car. I went
~ David Wong
On his way out he turned and said, "And don't put a bunch of bullshit in my mouth, or get cute and try to make me look stupid. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go to the salon to have my pubic hair straightened and dyed white so that my dick looks like Santa Claus." He closed the door, farting loudly all the way to his car.
~ David Wong
it was like fucking an electric zombie, a stiff-legged gazelle shuddering in northern catatonia.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
You know Hitler? I like Hitler more than I like you, and I'm a Jew.
~ Jeff Strand
that Lady Herrick has a birthmark in the shape of a butterfly on her left buttock. Oh, and that said birthmark turns an interesting shade of lavender when slapped." Apollo stopped in the hallway outside the breakfast room and simply stared at his companion. "What?" Montgomery looked irritated. "I defy any man to not take the opportunity when presented to slap a lovely arse.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
What's shocking to me is seeing people walking around with green juices in their hand when the weather's bad in New York. I couldn't think of anything more awful to have when it's sleeting outside. Like, 'Oh, I'm craving some liquified kale right now.'
~ Ellie Kemper
When Sinead O'Connor tore up the picture of the Pope, you could hear a pin drop. I didn't know it was coming, obviously, because at dress, she had held up a picture of Balkan orphans, which I thought was really meaningful and what she wanted to do.
~ Lorne Michaels
My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.
~ Uwe Boll
I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
The Elian events were shocking to Cubans because we were the fair-haired boys of the Cold War. The problem is, the Cold War ended.
~ Joe Garcia
It was like hearing my mother was in a book club with Hitler.
~ Richard Paul Evans
And that ended the broadcast. The next time I saw him was less than a week later and he obviously hadn't had his shot for the day. He came over to me in a coffee shop and the transformation was shocking. The Buddha-like eyes were frantic, the voice had a whine, and "facts" now had a very emotional meaning for him.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
He confessed to stalking, torturing, and assaulting 400 children while traveling the country.
~ Deborah Blum
And then I see them. In the glow of the flashlight, I see the corses. Stacks of them. Some are shriveled. Some are putrid. Most still have their clothes on. Not one has its head on. "No. No way. No way! This can't be. Fresh dead people? They said the bodies were two hundred years old. This is bad. Really bad. We've got to call someone. Frontline. Nightline. Anderson Cooper.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Think the gift shop has something that doesn't look like . . . like . . ." "Like a cum rag in a clown orgy?
~ Amy Lane