Shock Quotations

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, but never when the tone comes on.

I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.

I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe.

I am still in shock and awe at being fired,

My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation - head down, trying not to screw up, trying to make it from one day to the next - that it is a shock to find yourself at the other end, with someone shaking your hand and asking how much money you want to make.

'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again.

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

People promise to stick with their spouse 'for richer or poorer' but it's the 'for poorer' part that causes the worry. The big shock is that the 'for richer' bit can also cause problems.

You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.

I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pieces look different every six months. You don't need to see the same gray suit every season. But surrounding it with 40 really interesting ideas makes it feel new.

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I've decided to quit acting. I will not be auditioning for anything anymore, and if I get offered something like a role in a movie or a commercial or something, I will graciously turn it down. It's been great, but its just not for me anymore.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

The Marine Corps has to ask itself, 'What does our nation need from its premier crisis response force?' We are America's shock troops in war and peace. I know it sounds corny, but it's not.

People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.

Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in the power of leaders and peoples to shape the directions of change.

Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.

Not to be too preachy, but I would really recommend to people, if you get the chance, to trust yourselves to leap without a net, because that will build the confidence. You know, you might shock yourself with how much you don't need a net because you can catch yourself.

I've been on shows that go for shock value

There's nothing you could say that would shock me.

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

My first child, I think I was completely shell shocked. I was ecstatic but in shock that I was now responsible completely for another life and it was my co-creation and how did I manage that?! I was in awe that I had actually done what millions of other women had done, given birth and now an added responsibility of 'mommy' in my life ahead!

Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic.

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

I do notice a lot of people who want to shock to get laughs. It's such a tricky thing; you don't want to make rules about it. There's nobody more hilarious than Dave Attell, and he'd break every rule you set up. But he's funny.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.

In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities and live very well next to each other. We always have the shock of the new, and that's fine. The renaissance style is totally different from the medieval, and they have a dialogue across time.

Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.

Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.

What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.

The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of 'The New York Times' sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that she was fired thanks in part to a soured relationship based on the 'Times' alleged sexist pay discrepancy only made those shock waves stronger.

Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.

My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.

Anyone who goes on 'The X Factor' to make big money will be in for a big shock.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

We're in a bit of shock maybe, a bit of disbelief. We hugged each other and there were a few tears of joy.

Where Shock is now, he is light years away from where he was back then. He could play back then, but now he gets in there and he doesn't hesitate. He can play, and he knows that. That's what makes him so dangerous.

When we closed there was a general feeling of shock and dismay. But people will be pleased with what has happened. I'm looking forward to watching this sleeping giant wake up.

We found that over half of patients visiting emergency departments were there for less-urgent or non-urgent conditions, things like chronic back pain or a sore throat. Whereas at the other extreme, less than one per cent who visited emergency rooms were most severely ill - people with diagnoses of shock or major trauma.

What'll shock you though is when kids do do things bad, they'll do it front of a camera.

What's so surprising about bacon? I dunno, I suppose it comes as something a a shock to the pig.

Unless the service stations decide to cut their margins in order to continue selling fuel, over $1.40 will shock a lot of people into changing the way they use their car.

We're feeling shock and dismay. For her to capitulate like this -- that's not the Pam Goldsmith-Jones that I knew. I can only assume that she's under unbelievable pressure from a far too powerful provincial government.

With the reaction that we got from the family version, people clearly made a statement that they wanted that international element in the show. I think it showed that the places are as much stars in the show as the people themselves. People were missing that exotic element ? that fish-out-of-water element where people were completely and utterly dumbfounded as to what to do because of culture shock and language barriers. They missed that. And I think that is a huge hook for us.

We lacked on the sticks a little bit. I think there was somewhat of a welcome factor. This was one of the better teams we will face all year and I think some of the guys were kind of in shock instead of being aggressive.

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

Wow, that was amazing. I might have seen him dunk one time before that, so that was a big shock to me.

We're still in a bit of shock right now. It hurts.

What the shock might be next time is unpredictable.

When you say shock value, the fact that we talk about what happened to a person... we talk about real things, we talk about real issues.

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

We were in a state of shock upon hearing the news. He was very personable, friendly and outgoing. He always was very professional.

bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.

This was a shock to everyone. The building has been here for 35 years; people have roots here.

We deal a lot with the preliminary stages of depression. We deal with the initial shock as it's only been moments that they have lost someone. These people are looking for spiritual help, someone that cares and spend time, and someone that understands the magnitude of their loss. I will stay there as long as they need me.

We've been hoping against hope that this doesn't happen. It could be another shock to the system.