#shock

There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit. ↗

— Pat Summerall

#bit #couple #daughter #did #had

Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#around #ever #everything #get #happening

And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale. ↗

— Kim Novak

#i #lot #meant #meant to be #roads

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#art #because #catharsis #even #get

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #sloth

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication? ↗

— Gene Tierney

#ask #been #farm #had #home

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it. ↗

— Mark Udall

#deeply #deny #despite #documentation #holocaust

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. ↗

— Voltaire

#because #brought #cannot #colors #contrary

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. ↗

— George Washington

#appellation #before #entitled #friendship #growth

I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#came #death #directing #ford #frightened