Shocking Quotes - Page 9

• For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks - accidentally - and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you're alive.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Suicide, Morning, Self Harm

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• It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.

  Andre Agassi

  Winning, Thinking, Focus

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• The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Real, School, Government

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• Your culture is your brand.

  Tony Hsieh

  Design, Marketing, Culture

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.

  Chris Brogan

  Marketing, Needs, Digital

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• It's superb, definitely. Something that is new to me, that is shocking. I got the news last night about 3 in the morning, and I don't think I even went back to bed.

  Scottie Pippen

  Basketball, Morning, Night

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• It's shocking how bright your star is.

  Britney Spears

  Stars, Reputation, Fame

  "Recap: ‘The X Factor’ Season 2 Finale – Performances" by Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I experienced the reality of the spiritual body and learned that it has every faculty of the physical body, though with greater sensitivity and some dimensions added... There will be nothing shocking in the transition, only a continuation of who I am now.

  Catherine Marshall

  Spiritual, Reality, Grieving

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• One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Athlete, Sarcasm

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.303, Penguin

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• Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

  Grayson Perry

  Artist, Tactics, These Days

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• There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking things. Maybe it's because you're so proper. Your necktie is never crooked, and your shoes are always shiny. And your shirts are so starchy. Sometimes when I look at you, I want to tear off all your buttons. Or set your trousers on fire. I've so often wondered-are you ticklish, my lord?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fire, Shoes, Wicked

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• How have we come to a place in society where millions of babies can be slaughtered and disposed of in the name of progress? Shocking but real.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Baby, Real, Names

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• Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Together, Looks, Reassurance

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.212, Bantam

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• With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow as a big event it doesn't seem to carry as much weight with the public as 9/11 did.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Tragedy, Events, Weight

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• Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.

  Brian Eno

  Quality, Awful, Sound

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• I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

  David LaChapelle

  Thinking, Matter, Remains

  Interview with Mary Barone, www.artnet.com. March 3, 2007.

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• It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

  Alan Moore

  Opportunity, Voice, People

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• It's shocking the things we call love.

  Deb Caletti

  Surprise, Shocking Things

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in all that it leaves out. But what happens is that the mind fills in what's missing . . . Painting is a way of making you see what I saw.

  Alex Katz

  Thinking, Missing, Leaving

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• It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

  Klaus Nomi

  Germany, Opera, Sopranos

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• 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

  Beautiful, Fashion, Elements

  "Tom Ford: a single man and his address book" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2010.

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• If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

  Andrew Williams

  Veins, Want, Wannabes

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• Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's the Puget Sound, which will kill you, if you fall into it, but it's also beautiful. Seattle is a city of contradictions. It's the most liberal and most literate city in America, and it has Starbucks and [Bill] Gates, but it's also where the Green River killer hunted women and where the runaway population is just shocking when you walk the streets. Within the same city, there's darkness and light.

  Veena Sud

  Beautiful, Fall, America

  Source: collider.com

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• You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers and this is going to be shocking for the liberal professors out there that are indoctrinating our kids but the founding fathers believed in the Judeo-Christian god that believed we have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! You can pursuit it. If you don't get it, it's your fault! You messed up. Go back to work. Work harder.

  Brad Stine

  Happiness, Christian, Country

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• It's a bit shocking when you show up in Africa or you're in the middle of Spain and there are people that know the words and the young kids singing along.

  Michael Buble

  Kids, People, Singing

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