Idealized Quotes

44 quotes by 42 authors

There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but ladies… — Kelly Sue DeConnick
Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that most… — James Surowiecki
Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are… — Pedro Almodovar
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? — Rufus Wainwright
Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You… — Joan Cusack
Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to… — Sondre Lerche
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic.… — Joe Bradley
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. — Anais Nin
I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most… — Natalie Portman
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. — Erica Jong
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to… — Dan Savage
Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating — Vine Deloria, Jr.
Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for… — Roger Lowenstein
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. — Robertson Davies
What, indeed, is an atheist? He is one who destroys delusions which are harmful to humanity in order to lead men back to nature, to… — Baron d'Holbach
Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference. — R A Salvatore
Feeling that the past was a golden age of seamless perfection a time of infinite happiness is not an accurate assessment of reality. Comparing this… — Melchor Lim

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