Hocking Quotes

While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS" settings. - Dave Barry

While [Fed policy-makers] have suggested a need to see weak post -war data before being convinced of any need to cut ... it is entirely possible that the recent pre -war data have been sufficiently shocking ... to make a majority of them keen to move before the next meeting. - Rory Robertson

While (Hurricane Katrina) is more devastating that 9/11 and (brought) far wider destruction and dislocation, the way 9/11 happened, the malice behind it and just the sheer terror of flying planes into buildings, I think it was so shocking to people that it truly shook them to the core. - Brian Goodman

Whenever a trade happens, it's always a little shocking from the player's perspective. - Gregg Clifton

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

When we went to fundraise for this trip that we knew would mean a ton to him, it was shocking how many people responded. He's a really great guy. No matter what, he's always got a smile on his face and that's a big thing for the kids. - Jason Verhelst

When I saw Brian had become so successful, it was quite shocking. - Denny Pattyn

When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward. - Nikki Cox

What's really shocking with these numbers are the kids, and the fact that 25 percent of these households are elderly. - Loretta Jones

What's astounding to me is not that the guys have come up and helped. It's this year, guys have come up from Double-A and not (just) helped - I mean, they've produced. That's been shocking. You get a couple guys from Triple-A come up and help, that's very, very lucky. - Chipper Jones