That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.
We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
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.
I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.
In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
Immanence, or complicity, allows the writer to be a kind of shock absorber of the culture: to reflect back its 'whatness,' refracted through the sensibility of his consciousness.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
It's not about the pace, it's about the direction we've set. The pace is of course a function of many factors, including the magnitude of the supply shock. But what's probably more important is the probability of the supply shock translating into sustainable embedded inflation.
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.
I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.
I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.
I'm not trying to prove myself, and I'm not trying to shock anyone.
The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.
Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock.
N.W.A were the audio-documentarians of their time. They were trying to shock people with the violence of their language and the subjects they were talking about. The fact that they dressed in guerilla outfits like the Black Panthers made them shocking by their appearance as well.
I am still in shock and awe at being fired.
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.
It's so difficult to shock America these days.
When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche.
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas.
I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a stupid old man. Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.
Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
I have a high range. Sometimes I sound like Stevie Winwood. Some people say I sound like Peter Gabriel. Some of the songs I write are funky. Others are slow. Some are ponderous, and some are there to shock. I must say some are pretty damn good, too.
I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
