If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.
The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.
I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality. . . I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.
Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.
Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of [Obama's] historical ignorance.
Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.
Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.
I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects!
I've been on shows that go for shock value
Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.
Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.
When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.
I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.
I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.
The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of the whole nation ardently dispensing the general welfare, but I think it nonetheless true.
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.
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.