Shocked Quotes - Page 21

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  Damon Lindelof

  Twists, Half, Saws

  "Lost in Space: A Chat With Prometheus Writer-Producer Damon Lindelof". Interview with Gregory Weinkauf, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2012.

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• There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

  Paul Oakenfold

  Chinese, Sound, Pops

  "The Great Wall of Sound" by Paul Oakenfold, Tom Pattinson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2007.

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• The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Sight, Names, People

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Though, technically, I'm shooting on location, my films are actually based inside a woman's heart. I think women are more emotional than men, and that's a thread I've explored in all my films. When I see TV these days, I'm shocked at how all the main women characters are portrayed as evil. Women are the foundation of everything, and they deserve to be treated that way on camera.

  Yash Chopra

  Heart, Character, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Believe, Comfort And Joy, Giving

  R. C. Sproul, Jr. (2012). “The Call to Wonder: Loving God Like a Child”, p.140, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I don’t think [Requiem for a Dream] is for children, but I think if you went home and looked at the video games that your kids are playing, you’d be much more shocked.

  Jared Leto

  Dream, Children, Home

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• I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Lines, Today, Way

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I was supposed to go out with this girl, but the plans mixed up because I was working late. So I went to her apartment with a flower. She was asleep, but I really wanted to see her. I figured I'd be like Romeo, and climbed up to her balcony and gave her a rose. She was very shocked. After that, it was over.

  James Franco

  Girl, Flower, Rose

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• I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

  Ursula Andress

  Numbers, Feels

  "How Can Women Make Beauty Last, Inside and Out?". Larry King Live, transcripts.cnn.com. June 8, 2000.

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• The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

  Lionel Blue

  Christian, Use, Affair

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• I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get shocked when I see how other people experience me. I see myself primarily in a domestic setting.

  Francesca Annis

  People, Experience, Different

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• I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.

  J. D. Salinger

  Children, Book, My Best Friend

  "The Twentieth Century". Book by Caroline Farrar Ware, p. 429, 1972.

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• I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

  John Cage

  Running, Book, Reading

  John Cage, Richard Kostelanetz (1993). “John Cage, writer: previously uncollected pieces”, Amadeus Press

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• My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living out that side of him as my sister is another creative person, she's a songwriter.

  Robert Pattinson

  Family, Friends, Dad

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• Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

  Stanley Crouch

  Might, Our Society, Violence

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• PSH - I am genuinely shocked, saddened and speechless. A truly wonderful man, with a magical touch. My hero. Thoughts are with his family

  Sam Claflin

  Hero, Men, Wonderful

  Twitter post from Feb 02, 2014

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• Then she declared loudly, "Smoke break!" and everyone's eyes came to us, some of them shocked seeing as these days you could light up a doobie and no one would blink but if you lit up a smoke, you courted being publicly stoned to death.

  Kristen Ashley

  Eye, Light, Smoking

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• My mother used to dress rather risqué when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, I thought it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mom, Mother, Kids

  "The Tao Of Drew" by Alexandra Jacobs, www.elle.com. September 18, 2006.

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• Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Learning

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.259, Ballantine Books

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• I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.

  Dave Barry

  Inspiring, Weight Loss, Years

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• Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

  Thomas Paine

  People, Ethics, Morality

  Thomas Paine (2016). “COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.541, e-artnow

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• I, personally, would be shocked if we went to the end of the tape now and I didn't have at least one... Look, even if I don't get one directly, eventually they're just going to have to give me one when I get old. So no matter how you slice it, I'm getting one.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Cocky, Giving, Would Be

  "Robert Downey Jr. Talks Walking Away From ‘Iron Man’; Convinced He’s Going To Be An Oscar Winner One Day". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. April 16, 2013.

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• ...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of control.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Real, People, Community

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• I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

  Andrew Stanton

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Mean, America

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