26 Petrified Quotes for You to Enjoy

Nature is a petrified magic city. Novalis

Nature City Magic Petrified

A film is a petrified fountain of thought. Jean Cocteau

Thought Petrified Film Fountain

I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me. Chris Martin

Me You Like Know Because Being Petrified Reincarnation

Just as a fossil is 'petrified time,' so is an ancient artifact or text. Adrienne Mayor

Time Ancient Text Just Fossil Petrified

Much of America is petrified to bring up race, especially in public forums - the media, in particular. Andrew Breitbart

Particular Up America Public Race Much Forum Media Petrified Bring

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 petrified of sharks because of that film. Ashley Scott

Me Age People Sharks Young Living Out Scared Know Because Still Lot Just Jaws Who Petrified Film Watching

As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone. Bipasha Basu

Alone Me Darkness Parents Control Ghost Ghost Stories Stayed Know How Am Still Child Brat Being Stories Being Alone Which Petrified

I remember watching William Hartnell as the first 'Doctor.' Black and white made it very scary for a youngster like myself. I was petrified, but even though I'd watch most of it from behind the sofa through my fingers, I became a fan. Bradley Walsh

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We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can. Dan Pallotta

Learning Charity Sector Charities Paramount Develop Powerful Fails New Attorneys Call Makes Endeavors Trying Upset Movie Experiments Curves Bold Petrified Event Flops Million Fundraising

My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time. Don Ameche

I remember the first time I pulled out of my driveway in my grandparents' Nissan Ultimate or Centra. I just remember getting in a car that smells like my grandparents, with both my parents standing on the lawn, so petrified. That was my car up until I was 18. Emily Ratajkowski

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 know because I'm petrified of being wrong. Gary Vaynerchuk

Good Me You Presidential See Pretty Pretty Good About Wrong Know Talk Because Sticking Debates Being Social Petrified

My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day bloody day of the year - the stiff upper lip is petrified sugar; that's Bermuda's revenge, the with death, the rotting future square in the teeth of it. Katherine Dunn

Death Future Day Every Day Revenge Pure Year Own White Every Sugar Teeth About My Own Properties Consume Qualities Stiff Bloody Mountain Square Lip Upper Theory English Rotting Petrified

I'm petrified of spiders. I hate them. I sleep with a glass of water beside my bed every night. I woke up once to take a sip of water and almost swallowed a dead one floating in the glass. Kyle Schmid

I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that. Lennie James

Sometimes Drama Ghost Ghost Stories Television Dreading Never Hour Least American Six Maybe Eight Stories Length Episodes Working American Television Series Petrified Twenty-Two Britain

I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete. Lou Brock

I saw 'The Shining' in eighth grade. I watched it on VHS at a sleepover and was petrified, totally petrified. And I didn't really start to digest the movie properly and understand it from a filmmaking perspective until I got older. But it pretty much defined what it meant to be scared of a movie for me. Mike Flanagan

Me Perspective Older Digest Saw Defined Scared Pretty Totally Properly Until Understand Got Shining Grade Movie Eighth Eighth Grade Much Really Meant Meant To Be Petrified Start Watched Filmmaking

I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating. Pattie Boyd

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I was petrified about 'I'm in You.' I couldn't wait to get it done to know whether it was good or not. Peter Frampton

Good You Wait About Know Get Done Whether Petrified

I met an agent through my modeling agency who encouraged me to go out and audition for sitcoms, and I was absolutely petrified because I had no desire to do it. Robin Wright

Me Met Out No Desire Through Absolutely Had Because Audition Go Encouraged Modeling Sitcoms Agency Agent Who Petrified Desire

I had always told my father that before working with him in the same frame as an actor, which I was petrified to do, I wanted to learn from him, so I had pleaded with him for two years before he agreed to write and direct 'Mausam.' It was our dream project and a wonderful opportunity for us to work as a family. Shahid Kapoor

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I don't even like walking up a ladder; I'm petrified of heights. Simon Fowler

Ladder Heights Like Up Walking Even Petrified

I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory. Sydney Pollack

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Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants. Toby Jones

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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 China's younger generation. Tom Lantos

Generation Wealth Political Will Free Power Enormous Despite Ruling Free Flow Remains Absolutely Particularly Undermine Legitimacy Information China Younger Younger Generation Petrified Among Elite Flow

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