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Quotes About Shocking

I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a taxi. A woman in Ohio had just had her seventeenth child. A twelve-year-old girl in Mexico had given birth to a thirteen-pound boy. The lead article on the woman's page was about how to adjust the older child to the new baby. I finally found an account of an axe murder on page seventeen, and held my coffee cup up to my face to see if the steam might revive me.
~ Shirley Jackson
All the millions of things we possessed as a family were inside the house, but, inexorably, there came one shocking moment when we discovered that the house was full.
~ Shirley Jackson
Death is just the shocking end of animation; it is dissolution that is final.
~ John Wyndham
I recommend a little dose of cancer to anyone.
~ Jennifer Saunders
If you're going to be an R already, you may as well be 'The Hangover,' and you may as well be as shocking as possible, because that's what delivers the most return.
~ Jon Favreau
I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.
~ Terry Bradshaw
This just in: Beverly Hills 90210, Cleveland Browns 3.
~ Colin Mochrie
I enjoy turning things on the audience. I really like working in genre because people come into the films with certain expectations. They know the tropes so well that, when you turn on those, it can be shocking because there's a complacency that comes with watching those films.
~ Ari Aster
Farooque Shaikh was not sick at all. In fact, when we were working together during 'Listen... Amaya,' I was sick but he was totally fit and very energetic and enthusiastic. Nobody had slightest hint that such a calamity can happen to him. His death was such a shattering news, first thing in the morning.
~ Deepti Naval
I love you, Taylor Carmichael Corretti. I love you for better and for worse—preferably worse, by the way." His eyes glittered into hers. "I love a bad girl. Think about it—if I marry you we can spend the rest of our lives shocking people.
~ Sarah Morgan
What grabs us is the shocking disproportion between what we perceive to be the sin (anger) and its consequences (eternal punishment). In the words of R. T. France, "ordinary insults may betray an attitude of contempt which God takes extremely seriously.
~ Scot McKnight
Q: What's the definition of surprise? A: A fart with a lump in it.
~ Scott McNeely
Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion.
~ Tom Ford
His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.
~ Keir Starmer
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.
~ Sandra Bernhard
You know on TV when there's one of those awkward, shocking moments and all you hear are the crickets in the background? Well chirp fucking chirp...this is one of those moments.
~ Emma Chase
The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one's own.
~ Eric Ambler
But I worried that, with no anticipated end date, it would be hard for us to stop buying without shocking the market.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
I got it, Go said. Go home, fuck her brains out, then smack her with your penis and scream, There's some wood for you bitch!
~ Gillian Flynn
So I killed a hobo today, honey . . . hahahaha! Ah, we have fun! Nick
~ Gillian Flynn
So I killed a hobo today.....hahahaha! Ah, we have fun.
~ Gillian Flynn
The scene was shocking, a horror show, and incongruous with the pretty bucolic setting of the country. Apple trees. Horses in the pasture. And a naked woman bound to a board and being dunked repeatedly.
~ Gregg Olsen