In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite - shock it at other times,...
We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.
Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every c...
My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.
A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
Any punishment is an insult to the crime
that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.
Rising demand for oil exposed Europe, and later America, to oil shocks - serious interruptions in supply. Like a pebble tossed into a pond, an oil shock creats ripples, or effects, felt everywhere. Oil shocks have two causes. The first is natural, be...
Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.
Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.
Lock, Shock, Barrel: Kidnap Mr. Sandy Claws? Lock: I wanna do it. Barrel: Let's draw straws! Shock: Jack said we should work together. Barrel: Three of a kind. Lock: Birds of a feather. Lock, Shock, Barrel: Now and forever!
People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.
I mean, electric shock? Isn’t that a bit... electric shock-y?
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
Inside my head is a jigsaw made of trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms. It might take a while.
Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a party.
[after knocking a fan into a bathtub to electrocute a bad guy] James Bond: Shocking! Positively shocking!
