Quotes About Jolt

It causes a jolt of terror to run through him, this absence of official time. Nobody nowhere knows what time it is.

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

Toby twisted around. "Boo." Emily screamed.

From time to time historians need to be shocked.

To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.

Q: What's the definition of surprise? A: A fart with a lump in it.

What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

Jack felt a jolt. Then he heard a grinding sound. The ship was scraping against the mountain of ice.

It felt wonderful. Like being struck by lightning.

The heart that disdains all motion occasionally is convulsed by a jolt.

I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.

like a deep bruise, the memory of Momma's final day jolts me whenever I bump up against it. I suspect it always will. So much about my mother's life and death would forever remain a mystery

You scared my pants off!

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them." —Leo Rosten

I love shocking people.

Anytime anybody jumps out at me, I scream.

But this orange raft and its hidden notebook? They were a jolt to that misery. He wasn't sure why. Maybe it was the idea that something—even a few pages of something—had endured a tragedy and crossed an ocean to find him. It had survived. And witnessing survival can make us believe in our own.

Molly was the same height as Graham, five feet ten inches. A level kiss in public carries a pleasant jolt, possibly because level kisses usually are exchanged in bed.

Life can be sudden.

The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.

You'd think the jolt of suddenly being hit by a human bullet would've woken the guy up, but he'd completely checked into the stupor suite at the Hotel Hypoxia.

I don't think anyone can call a movie like 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' a horror movie. It's a jolt. It's a series of jolts followed by a quick one-liner that's wallpapered with an MTV rock & roll soundtrack. That's not horror to me.

Why was the change so abrupt?

His life did not so much flash before his eyes, as slap him in the face