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“If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how my best images appear. That excitement and shock of discovery makes my life at these moments a gift.”

Ifs Moments Mystery Fronts Lucky Photography Discovery Excitement Shock Something New Lenses Inexplicable

Author:Joyce Tenneson

“It's always a pleasure to imagine an idea and work alongside a brand like G-Shock to make it a reality. G-Shock continues to push the bar with design and technology and that inspires me to do the same with my riding and visuals.”

Ideas Reality Pleasure Technology Imagine Design Inspire Bars Brands Visuals Shock Riding

Author:Nigel Sylvester

“I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.”

Believe Persons Reason Feelings Faces I Believe Fine Elements Appearance Combination Shock Sensations Surprising New Faces

Book:Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer

“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.”

Men Firsts Long Has Beens War Lasts Millions Records Five Four Violence Mets Storm Broke Shock Fury Broke Up

Book:Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War

Source: Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War

“A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you'll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Fun Natural Function Curiosity Shock Indulge New Experiences Inquisitive Natural Curiosity Shock Absorber Bumpy Roads

Author:Bill Watterson

“No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.”

Ifs Persons Found Names Drink Hundred Regard Shame Beer Shock Sane Vulgar Scorn Shameful Refinement Humiliating Snob Cider Claret

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Shock Unemployment Pathology

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.”

People Years Found Theater Shock Comment Sheer Gazing

Book:Conversations with Thornton Wilder

Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder

“Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in size, in power, in everything a man could think of-and in that belief there was a might and a fury that would take form instantly at the moment of shock.”

Thinking Men Moments Might Form Belief Nations Destiny Growing Goes On Profound West Size Conviction Ran Shock Subconscious Fury

Author:Bruce Catton

“The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.”

Spiritual Social Brain Technology Century Shock Twentieth Century Debris

Book:The Disappearance of Childhood

Source: The Disappearance of Childhood

“The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.”

Thinking Way Trying Ideas Different Together Pieces Modern Clothes Patterns Different Ways Classic Shock New Ideas Fabric Provoking

Author:Jean Paul Gaultier

“The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock. But the natural world is not so malleable. On the contrary, it will demand that you adapt to it - and if you don't, you die.”

World Giving Nature Natural Demand Expectations Notion Damn Shock Massive Natural World

Author:Michael Crichton

“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.”

Shows Audience Havens Clean Enjoyed Shock Resorts

Author:Bob Newhart

“To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.”

Giving Looks Objectives Shock Psychics Subjective Afar

Author:Julian Barnes

“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”

People Mean Made Hands Faces Order Names Waiting Realizing Morning Crime Goes On Rounds Lists Fixed Shock Treatment Nurse Dread Every Morning Psychiatry Weeping Fashionable Polished

Book:Faces in the water

Source: Faces in the water

“When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.”

Seems Artist Wish Goal Sake Objectives Mysterious Shock Obscure Obscurity

Author:Tawfiq al-Hakim

“I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.”

Writing Fate Regret Pages Surprise Shock

Author:Julia Child

“Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!”

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

Littles Has Beens Tough Decades Shock

Author:Ed Rollins

“I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.”

Ifs Firsts Shows Bigs Fashion Industry Doctors Scary Shock Spin Doctors

Author:Alexander McQueen

“I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.”

Needs Giving Diets Shock Electric Pills Electric Shock

Author:Joy Behar

“It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.”

Made Natural Deals Century Goes On Fundamentals Observation Shock Mechanism Selection Twentieth Century Natural Selection

Author:Michael Behe

“It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.”

People World Made Natural Principles Century Observation Features Shock Selection Elegant Nineteenth Century Natural Selection

Author:Michael Behe

“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.”

People Stuff Generations Television Grew Grew Up Universal Theater Shock Packages My Generation Mummy

Author:Rick Baker

“I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.”

Firsts Children School Lonely Grades Shock Farms Classroom Shut Up Bad Times Lonely Child

Author:Beverly Cleary

“I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.”

Thinking Writing Film Audience Blood Demand Get Better Guts Shock Old Days

Author:Claudia Christian

“This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.”

May Bits Sound Forget Watches Goes On Mad Assuming Lovely Shock Embarrassed

Author:Olivia Colman

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

Stars Pops Enjoyed My Time Shock Pop Stars Full Life

Author:Belinda Carlisle

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

Said Related Shock

Author:Tom Conti

“Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.”

Thinking Three Rooms Audience Drama Window Shock Inviting Larger Than Life Drama Life

Author:Joel Edgerton

“You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.”

Giving Looks Kind Culture Results Appreciate Shock Realising Lacking Other Cultures

Author:Mem Fox

“One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.”

Doe Art Audience Shock

Author:Richard Foreman

“I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.”

Kind Stills Faces Night Acting Tvs My Family Shock Family And Friends Wednesday Making A Living Wednesday Nights

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.”

People Interest Acting Heard England Responsible British London Russia Shock Allies Soviet Soviet Russia

Author:John Amery

“After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.”

House Saved Shock Pilots Roof New Orleans Hurricanes Katrina Helicopters Hurricane Katrina

Author:Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.”

Feels White Brain Doors Drug Rain Tired Wave Storm Alcohol Hungry Shock Entertaining Shelter Drugs And Alcohol Powder Shelter From The Storm

Author:Elton John

“The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.”

Art Today Media Rain Entertainment Shock Sane

Author:Tori Amos

“I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, 'as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.'”

“Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.”

Life Changed Empty Shock Timeless Succession Intervals Life Has Changed

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..”

Politics Black Sky Cry Sight Down And Blue Neighbor Smoke Rising Shock Blue Sky Shout Out

Author:Alan Jackson

“A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising.”

People Has Beens Wanted Girl Stuff My Own Known Shock Surprising Spices Spice Girls

Author:Melanie Chisholm

“I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.”

Giving Mind Including Shock

Author:Jessica Brown Findlay

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

Doe Television Shock

Author:Lauren Graham

“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.”

Has Beens Country Issues Policy Shock Expanding Inflation Emerging Monetary Monetary Policy

Author:Sri Mulyani Indrawati

“Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.”

“Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory.”

Ifs Has Beens Helping Together Science Results Too Much Theory Add Pursuit Observation Shock Physicist

Author:Arthur Eddington

“In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.”

Thinking Important Moments Given Dying Dad Band My Family Shock Mum 80s Your Mum Mum And Dad

Author:Gary Kemp

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