Petrified Quotes
61 Petrified quotes by 56 unique authors
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Architecture is petrified music.
— Felix Schelling
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My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't…
— Gina Carano
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At first I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. But then I spent so many…
— Gloria Gaynor
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As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints…
— James Russell Lowell
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When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.
— Ben Schwartz
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Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like…
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.
— Caroline Corr
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I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.
— Simon Cowell
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
— George Eliot
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The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional…
— John Mahoney
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But when the 'Glee' audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.
— Cory Monteith
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
— Mark Twain
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I…
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and…
— Werner Herzog
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Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen…
— Khalil Gibran
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I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when…
— Janet Fitch
Who Wrote These Petrified Quotes
56 authors contributed a total of 61 Petrified Quotes, led by these top contributors: