#shocking

With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy. How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she? ↗

— Roald Dahl

#intelligent #matilda #roald-dahl #shocking #inspirational

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#how #i #i am #impertinent #insolent

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story. I will not do something shocking for the sake of being nasty. If it's not hurting anyone's feelings, I'm in on the joke. ↗

— Selma Blair

#anyone #anything #being #belief #feelings

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#accepted #away #became #bestseller #book

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

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#absolutely #actor #anything #behavior #commercially

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#find #out #people #really #shocking

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#correctness #i #out #political #political correctness

I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#could #depressed #find #happy-go-lucky #i

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet. ↗