Petrified Quotes

61 quotes by 56 authors

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. — A. Whitney Brown
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. — Jean Cocteau
I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for… — Clyde Tombaugh
My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and… — Leonardo DiCaprio
Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still… — Ashley Scott
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing… — Herbert Marcuse
I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a… — Roland Barthes
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us… — John Burroughs
Why are you so petrified of silence, here can you handle this? Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines or when you… — Alanis Morissette
He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence. — Aneurin Bevan
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom… — Ludwig von Mises
Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and… — Avicenna
I went to a Karaoke Bar last night that didn't play any 70s music, at first I was afriad, oh I was petrified — Stewart Francis
Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
[History is] petrified imagination. — Arthur Baer
One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized,… — Joseph Campbell
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period. — Mark Twain
I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me. — Andy Partridge
Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among… — Tom Lantos

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