Quotes About Petrify

I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.

Hey, Dad, can I borrow the severed head of Medusa tonight? I'm going out with my friends. Okay, honey, just bring it back by midnight, and don't petrify anyone.

Medusa… the sight of her face turned people into stone. [Here she is] perhaps a symbol of the ultimate sin, despair, which would petrify Dante and so trap him in Hell for ever.

Its snaky acids kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

the Maori and their haka. It is death. It is death, they chant. To terrify, to petrify.