Greg Davies

When you're trying to enter something as intimidating as comedy, starting out with a support network of likeminded people is a powerful thing. It was natural we'd end up working together because we went through those first petrifying moments together. We created gigs for each other, slapped each other on the back, and protected each other.

British Comedian

Vivek Murthy

I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all the years when I was a child that I struggled with feeling lonely when I was scared to go to school and petrified of walking into the elementary school cafeteria because I was worried I wouldn't have anyone to sit with.

American Public Servant

Lou Brock

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.

American Athlete

Edith Hamilton

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

American Writer

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

I'm petrified of facing the camera. Even to shoot for a photograph is an ordeal. But it's important to break free of your inhibitions at some point in your life.

Indian Director

Robin Wright

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.

American Actress

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

American Tennis Player

Mark Twain

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Kell Brook

I'm petrified of spiders, I've just never liked them.

British Athlete

Jean Cocteau

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

French Director

Used when describing an overwhelming fear that immobilizes or shocks someone.

Intense Fear

Doesn't always mean actual fear; can be used for dramatic effect.

Not Literal

Carries a strong emotional weight; more impactful than 'scared' or 'frightened'.

Emotional Weight

Refers to the gradual process of organic material turning into stone over time.

Natural Process

Petrification preserves details of the original organic materials.

Preservation

Describes a process making something hard or unyielding, like being frozen.

Physical Change

Can describe a situation or condition that causes someone or something to be unable to move.

Immobility

 it up it looks like you're looking at petrified wood with tree rings because that's what it is it happens in our teeth too under a magnifying lens you can see rings in our teeth they were laid down every day in the development of the tooth so you can tell how old that tooth is and if you calculate and add up the rings in one tooth and you

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 everything that I know and then if you're ready then off you go and I said I deal so hopped in a plane I was petrified because when I got on the plane I didn't know how to 3d print I'm going to Sudan to make to make something for this boy who I've never met before but I'd never made it before but I'm getting on this plane so here we go

Making the impossible...

 Well actually, he raped her, but he would say he had sex with her. Because, while Sheila never said no, she also never said yes. So he was offering me the opportunity to do the same. So when I go in the room, I close the door. Folks, I'm petrified.

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 to make a dinosaur you go out you find yourself a piece of petrified tree sap otherwise known as amber that has some blood sucking insects in it good ones and you get your insect you drill into it and you suck out some DNA because

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 If you want to make a dinosaur, you go out, you find yourself a piece of petrified tree sap -- otherwise known as amber -- that has some blood-sucking insects in it, good ones, and you get your insect and you drill into it

 I mean, these people had nothing, and they were so petrified, they wanted to give up, but the woman in the center rallied for them to persevere, and abolitionists on the ground helped them get a quarry lease of their own,

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 year-old bottles of salad dressing, pad thai that had become petrified, just gross stuff. And no one should have to do that, right? Again, a very, very small thing that makes a big difference in someone’s life.

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 So safety, with respect to the application, is the number one answer that we get from growers, for "Why biological control?" Number two, many growers are, in fact, petrified by the idea of resistance,

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 and gas mask and apply chemicals so safety with respect to the application this is not one answer that we get from growers why biological control number two many growers are infected petrified

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 I was so petrified and so numb, all I could look was in the rear-view mirror. And he just laid her right on the shoulder of the highway. My own child, I let that happen to."

Petrify

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