I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your cra...
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of heari...
Flannery O`Connor
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on ea...
Robert Anton Wilson
Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
Alvin Toffler
[on `Dr Zhivago`] "Although I went all over the world promoting it, I`d never got to see more than the credits before being whisked away. Finally, at Cannes, I was to sit through the whole thing through. When I appeared for the first time, I fainted from ...
Geraldine Chaplin
About her role in Spectres (2004): "It was the first time really that I got to be a mom, and I thought it was about time, really, because I really am old enough to be someone`s mom. It was just a little bit of a shock going from never having been a mom to...
Marina Sirtis
I find my blood pressure rising when Clinton`s cultural shock troops participate in homosexual rights fund raisers but boycott gun rights fund raisers - and then claim it`s time to place homosexual men in tents with boy scouts and suggest that sperm-donor...
Charlton Heston
Describing her shock at finding herself pregnant at eighteen: "The only solution was to find a quack and get an abortion. I had a botched abortion and it was terrible. Afterwards my own doctor said, `What butcher did this to you?` I had to be taken to hos...
Jane Russell
I remember getting cast in Amistad and getting this very strong feeling that I had overshot myself. It was a great shock. It made me realize that this is not a profession you can predict; that you can have all these ambitions and expectations and that the...
Chiwetel Ejiofor
[on his late father`s reaction to his character Dr. Gregory House] He would be absolutely appalled. He was an endlessly polite, generous and soft-spoken man. He was no pushover, but he would never hurt, shock or outrage people just for the hell of it. At ...
Hugh Laurie
For a performer to get rage, or to get hostility or shock or any kind of emotions from the audience is a joy. The thing I think actors fear the most is boredom or inattention. That`s what kills me.
William H. Macy
I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody`s trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that`s subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.
Sandra Bernhard
[on Frank Capra] He was my favorite director. Woody Allen and I once sat in a restaurant and picked five pictures we`d take to an island. And much to my shock, he didn`t take a Capra picture and I took two. He took three Ingmar Bergman movies.
Burt Reynolds
(asked if winning the Globe was a shock) God, yes! I was so sure I wasn`t going to win it, I went up to Meryl Streep (nominated for The Manchurian Candidate) before the show and said, "You`re going down." We`d done a play together, so I knew her pretty we...
Natalie Portman
[On being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Away From Her"] I`m in total disbelief. I`m thrilled but kind of in shock too. It`s been such a strange year and I`m bowled over by the life of the film. It`s more than I could have...
Sarah Polley
I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don`t do things to shock people. I`m not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don`t know how long I`m going to be on this planet. So while I`m here, I might as well make the most of it.
Eminem
I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don`t do things to shock people. I`m not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don`t know how long I`m going to be on this planet. So while I`m here, I might as well make the most of it.
Eminem
I just love to shock people. Yesterday my friend said, What a great top, is it Stella?" I said, "No, it`s Mango, £25." I`m never head-to-toe in anything. I like to mix things from Prada, things from Marc Jacobs. But, you know, you can spend several thousa...
Claudia Schiffer
[On her "autobiography"] "There`s a lot of stuff that happened to me when I was kinda young. Like when I was just 12, or 13 or so. It might really shock some people. It`s an interesting part of my life, I hope it`s in the book, I didn`t check whether they...
Katie Price
[about kissing band mate David M. Navarro in the Red Hot Chili Peppers` "Warped" video]: "It was totally spontaneous. It was no big deal. It was not any sort of contrived design to shock. The funny thing is people are so close-minded and uptight and freak...
Anthony Kiedis