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«I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.»
«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
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«A film is a petrified fountain of thought.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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Movies
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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.»
«In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.»
«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.»
«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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