I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line. . . I like to find out where the line might be and then cross it deliberately, and then make the audience happy about crossing the line with me.
I don't know how to tell it--but ef such a thing could be As the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me-- I'd want to 'ccommodate 'em--all the whole-in-durin' flock-- When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.
Oh no, Nick" Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, "how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious.
I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I believe, but at the same time it should be a shock to the person - the person should be shocked to be suddenly revealed. That's the work of a designer sometimes, to propose an ID of look.
Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.
That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.
When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.
The most difficult thing about shooting guns instantly on film is to not pull a silly face while the gun is going off, because it's always a bit of a shock. So you find yourself sticking your tongue out or blinking or whatever. So the hardest thing is to keep a straight face while you're shooting a gun.
I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.
Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.
If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.
I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!