Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down her cheeks. She had perfect...

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

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

I could tell by their audible gasps that the people on the beach were jealous of me when I found five shark’s teeth. Locating them wasn’t really the problem, but pulling them out of my...

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

Her voice faltered to a stop. Fear and confusion clutched at her throat like some terrible beast, and suddenly she was finding it difficult to breathe.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

I’ve been on shows that go for shock value.

I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn’t worth attention are the things that attracts attention

There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you’re supposed to do, but in fact you’re not there at...

After a great blow, or crisis, after the first shock and then after the nerves have stopped screaming and twitching, you settle down to the new condition of things and feel that all possibility of...

Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr. Moreton to suffer a shock. It was not at all the...

His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn’t breathe.

We thought it was critical to continue our restoration efforts. We really needed to be able to do something that would avoid severe rate shock. That’s what we’re trying to do.

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.