Petrified Man Quotes

#1. No, that part's not true! That's a joke-lie. I'm not going to lie to you in this story because I want you to know that the rest of it is true.

Tina Fey

#2. Celibacy is nothing if not abnormal. The human body and brain are not made for such programming. Whatever normal is, it does not include celibacy.

Darrel Ray

#3. You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.

Don King

#4. Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified.

Manly P. Hall

#5. It would seem to be an inexorable law of Nature that no man shall shine at both ends. If he has a high forehead and a thirst for wisdom, his fox-trotting (if any) shall be as the staggerings of the drunken; while, if he is a good dancer, he is nearly always petrified from the ears upward.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.

Luke Evans

#7. When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

Lu Xun

#8. 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.

Roland Barthes

#9. I bit my lip. 'Come on then, you dirty old man.' I stepped forward and smacked a kiss on Baz's lips. He looked petrified. The secretary looked horrified. I felt vindicated. 'Run along now, Daddy.' I said.

Antony John

#10. He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

Aneurin Bevan

#11. Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment, long flakes and blades of light in the dusty water sliding away like optic strobes where motes sifted and spun.

Cormac McCarthy

#12. I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.

Ziggy Marley

#13. For a scientist, altering your doctrines when the facts change is not a sign of weakness.

Albert Einstein

#14. And I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I ... I hurt no more, while you ... you petrified little man, are left to wonder if it's you I speak of.

Kellie Elmore