Shocking Quotes - Page 19

• Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Murder, Obscenity

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• Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my words, your marriage will change after reading this book.

  Debby Applegate

  Book, Reading, Laughing

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• That Asian guy is really good at kicking. Shocking. Someone is pressing 'A' really fast somewhere.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Guy, Asian

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• Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

  Annie Elizabeth Delany

  Past, Worst Enemy, Wish

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.208, Kodansha America

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• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Air, Degrees, Ugly

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• Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

  Christopher Fry

  Real, Mysterious Things, Hands

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• Tell people what specific action to take.

  Jay Abraham

  People, Marketing, Action

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• [Childbirth] is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It's like an 'Alien' movie. I started crying, it was so emotional ... I was there in the room but I wasn't planning on doing much. But then I see this blue pinhead come out and I think I said to the nurse, 'What the hell is that?' And then it turns into this round red thing in seconds. It's just shocking.

  Tim Burton

  Emotional, Thinking, Blue

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• I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more shocking.

  Hilton Als

  Thinking, Racism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.

  Pete Cashmore

  Marketing, Shapes, Execution

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• I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

  Duke of Wellington

  Life, Saws, Hats

  On seeing the first Reformed Parliament, in Sir William Fraser 'Words on Wellington' (1889) p. 12

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• The brands that can connect with client in a real way will win.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Real, Winning, Marketing

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• You want to understand the smallest feature set customers will pay for in the first release.

  Patrick Vlaskovits

  Marketing, Want, Pay

  Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits (2010). “The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphany”, p.39, CustDev

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• It's about using the right tools, with the right triggers, within a proper marketing framework

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Marketing, Tools, Helpful

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• Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.

  Seth Godin

  Differences, Marketing, Making A Difference

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• People can't relate to someone who only talks about their successes.

  Jeremy Schoemaker

  People, Marketing, Helpful

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• If you don't understand people, you don't understand business.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Marketing, Helpful

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015

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• The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

  Lewis Howes

  Marketing, Important, Helpful

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• The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.

  Anne Rice

  Morning, School, Gun

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Dec 21, 2012

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• This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Believe, Mean

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.54, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.

  Peter Dinklage

  Pain, Home, Animal

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• If you are anxious about a business deal or worried about your job, you are seeing failure as a possibility. And having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means of realization of the end. It is a shocking truth we should never forget.

  Eric Butterworth

  Courage, Jobs, Mean

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• I never think I'm capable of any of [action movies]! I'm always terrified, but luckily on this one it was directed by my husband [Len Wiseman]. 'I can't possibly do it. I'm too scared, I can't do it.' He says: 'Go on. DO it!' So it is shocking as I'm not one of those people who finds that stuff easy.

  Colin Farrell

  Husband, Thinking, People

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• We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

  Nick Denton

  Believe, Web Content, Opinion

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• I think the experience of getting an audience a little bit tense and shocking them with a jump scare, and then moving on it can be cheap and easy. The harder thing is to get them unnerved and disturbed in a growing way. That starts off easy and increases all the way through the picture.

  C. Robert Cargill

  Moving, Thinking, Scare

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