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.
Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.
It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.
I foresee death by culture shock.
So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.
I was like, "Oh my god, I hope you're secretly grossed out about everything that [Donald] Trump has been doing. " But why is it such a shock to anybody? He's said so many things that show who he is and how ignorant he is from the beginning.
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.
I've been on shows that go for shock value
I am fairly embraced by the Hollywood community, and I love making movies and I love acting, but I'm not real crazy about the Hollywood system. So the fact that they embrace me is a shock to me because I tell them to kiss my ass all the time. I don't understand why they haven't thrown me out on my ear. The other thing is I don't participate much. I have very few friends within the movie community. I hang out with some guys I've known forever. They're all broke and eat me out of house and home. But I stay home mostly and I don't go to the parties. Maybe that preserves me.
People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]
At the shock of a joke, everything disappears but the present moment.
It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.
Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life. . . When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of their resource management, with an eye to environmental best-practice and long term sustainability, produce fresh efficiency and fresh savings that actually shock those in the company
I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.