Famous quotes containing the words detached and/or shock:
“People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
“There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”
—F.H. (Francis Herbert)