Shock Quotes - Page 20

• As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that poses a much greater challenge -- the retooling of the country's economy, society, and government necessary for the United States to perform effectively in the twenty-first century.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Recovery, Past

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• Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Women, Hands

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• The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

  Don DeLillo

  Life, Dust, Ordinary

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.305, Pan Macmillan

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• The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came to me in Sarajevo a year or two later... That was an early quarrel between me and many of my Nation colleagues, and it was also the first time I found myself in the same trench as people like Paul Wolfowitz and Jeane Kirkpatrick: a shock I had to learn to get over. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Interview with Jamie Glazov, historynewsnetwork.org. December 23, 2003.

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• When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.

  Henry Kirke White

  Christian, May, Fortitude

  Henry Kirke White (1824). “The prose remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, late of St. John's College, Cambridge, containing his letters, essays, and some account of his life”, p.117

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• When I was three, my dad thought it would be hilarious to teach me swear words, then have me say them to his friends. They would laugh and laugh. I realize now the laugh was pure shock value, but it felt really good, and I've been chasing it ever since.

  Sarah Silverman

  Dad, Laughing, Would Be

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• I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may necessitate a certain amount of teasing. To shock the reader is something else again. That has to be handled with great care if you're not going to alienate and hurt him, and I'm firmly against that, just as I disapprove of people who dress with that in mind - dye their hair blue and stick safety pins through their noses and so on.

  John Ashbery

  Hurt, Thinking, Hair

  "John Ashbery, The Art of Poetry No. 33". Interview with Peter A. Stitt for The Paris Review, Issue 90, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1983.

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• Every time I do anything, I have to ask myself: Is it a good role, and is it right to do it? There may be sex or nudity or violence in the script, and then you have to say: Is it gratuitous just out to shock people? Or is it there because it has to be? If a role demands it, and it isn't gratuitous, I'll do it. It's my job, after all. I'm an actress.

  Julie Andrews

  Jobs, Sex, People

  News of the World, June 1986.

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• For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The "Magician of Riga" rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.

  Garry Kasparov

  Inspiration, Player, Rose

  "How Life Imitates Chess". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2007.

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• The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Vocabulary, Blind Spots, People

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• America's entire war on terror is an exercise in imperialism. This may come as a shock to Americans, who don't like to think of their country as an empire. But what else can you call America's legions of soldiers, spooks and special forces straddling the globe?

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, War, Exercise

  Michael Ignatieff (2003). “Empire Lite”, London : Vintage

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• One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  People, Doe, Want

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Power of Three”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour.

  Rufus Wainwright

  People, Glamour, Homosexual

  "Rufus! Rufus! Rufus! Does Judy! Judy! Judy!". Music TV Movie, 2007.

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• If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.

  R. O. Blechman

  Rejection, Magazines, May

  R. O. Blechman (2009). “Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.

  Tim Lebbon

  Over You, Skins, Sometimes

  Tim Lebbon (2003). “Fears Unnamed”

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• True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.

  Arthur Lynch

  Love, Loss, Together

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Real, Ignorance, People

  "Obama: Bush is Responsible for Chavez (Bzzt! Wrong!)". littlegreenfootballs.com. May 25, 2008.

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• Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up.

  Hiroo Onoda

  Ignorant, Wake Up, Sleepy

  "Words to Live By: Hiroo Onoda". Judit Kawaguchi, The Japan Times, January 16, 2007.

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• Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Believe, Fighting, Optimism

  "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking". Book by Oliver Burkeman, www.newyorker.com. 2012.

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• Paul Ryan announced that after a lot of thought, and talking it over with family and friends, that he is not going to run for president in 2016. I'm telling you, this announcement sent shock waves through no one.

  David Letterman

  Running, Talking, Family And Friends

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• I got on a plane. I remember when I got on the plane, the talk was, you know, they're checking Dale out, that it's more than what it looked like, but I still didn't think it would be anything more than maybe some injuries. Then I landed at home and my phone just lit up. I started getting those messages.
  
  I mean, I was blown away. I couldn't believe it. I was just in shock.

  Jeff Gordon

  Believe, Home, Mean

  "Daytona 500: Jeff Gordon - Media Day visit". www.motorsport.com. November 2, 2011.

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• I was able to get a few words out that Scott Peterson was the Scott Peterson that had a missing, pregnant wife and ... I just shook. They said I was there probably like an hour and it just seemed like a moment ... I couldn't stop shaking. So I was, I guess, in shock.

  Scott Peterson

  Wife, Missing, Able

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• Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Laughing, Sake, Shocking

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.

  Alan Arkin

  People, Want, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.

  Cornel Wilde

  Reason, Scene, Brutal

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