#shock

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#born #changed #changes #eager #go

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. ↗

— James Baldwin

#find #five #gary #great #indian

I'd taken three years off to live as a normal person, so this was my first time back into it, and it was kind of shocking, but then it was fun. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#first #first time #fun #i #into

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

— Brigitte Bardot

#how #i #i am #impertinent #insolent

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. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#almost #audience #drama #get #going

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#haven #mechanics #profoundly #quantum #quantum mechanics

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#almost #am #build #capable #future

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#interest #persons #shock #us #who

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#ever #fun #i #shock #shut

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

— Tom Felton

#car #cinema #got #haven #i