Jolt

Famous quotes containing the word jolt:

    A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim’s watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
    Irvin S. Cobb (1876–1944)

    We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life’s routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse rate, and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)