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«I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.»
Author: A. Whitney Brown | Keywords: frustrated, petrified, petrifies, petrifying, pyromaniac
«The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.»
Author: George Moore (Philosopher) | About: Mind | Keywords: circle, circle around, circle round, dogma, drawn, draws, petrifies, petrifying
«What are we going to do about Billy? That was the phrase that haunted me those first ten years. I pretended not to care, but secretly I was petrified. Everyone and everything was passing me by. I had no real friends, no single person who shared an equal interest in all games. I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.»
Author: William Goldman | Keywords: admitted, billy, frenzy, haunted, passing game, petrified, petrifies, petrifying, phrase, pressed, pretended, secretly
«Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel | About: Materialism | Keywords: coarsened, coarsens, petrifies, petrifying, vulgar
«A film is a petrified fountain of thought.»
Author: Jean Cocteau (Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet) | About: Movies | Keywords: film, fountain, petrified, petrifies, petrifying
«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 real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.»
Author: Roland Barthes (Critic) | About: Cities | Keywords: absent, flat, geometric, greenish, grid, grids, heights, inferno, lattice, lattices, metropolis, petrified, petrifies, the metropolis
«I was dreading winning. I didn't even plan a speech-I was worried that I would slip up or do something horrible. I was shaking in my seat, putting on a posed smile. Inside I was petrified.»
Author: Leonardo DiCaprio (Actor) | Keywords: dreading, petrified, petrifies, posed, shaking, slip up
«Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: broke, chain, freed, human soul, loyalties, loyalty, petrified, petrifies, petrifying
«Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: broke, chain, freed, human soul, loyalty, petrified, petrifies, petrifying
«Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: cliff, cliffs, petrified, petrifies, petrifying, waves
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