Quotes of: Shock Keyword

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in good faith and without bombast, that art could...

The Shock of the New

We are absolutely right to condemn the suicide bomber's targeting of innocent civilians and mourn his victims. But as we have seen, in war the state also targets such victims; during the 20th century, the rate of civilian deaths rose sharply and now ...

Karen Armstrong

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

The Charioteer

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

The Day of the Triffids

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Everything Beautiful Began After

Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.

Father Crow and Other Poems

Shock and desire have my nerves tingling like I've been struck by horny lightning.

Falling for the Ghost of You

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Blithe Spirit

I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

Frances Farmer

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

Jesus-Shock

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Jesus-Shock

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Jesus-Shock

Shocked my old friend from China, Deja Vu, when I turned up at his door without notice.

Sans Destination

Was this what humans were really like? They seemed like drooling idiots to me. I was shocked they walk and breathe at the same time?

Shelter

Awakening will be sudden and shocking. You and I must be there for her awakening. We won`t be there for (her?) later on. That`s for other hands to do.

Nightfall

And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

The Pilot's Wife

When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.

Matt Cameron

If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.

Nikolas Schreck

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

Phil Collins

One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.

Peter Schiff