Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see. ' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.
The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free!
I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
I am still in shock and awe at being fired.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.