Ideal Word Quotes

#1. I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember, and something of that has always stayed with me, to this day. Of course, there were difficulties, because in comparison to my ideal, I didn't even come close.

Gerhard Richter

#2. But, Marcie had reminded herself, I don't know the weight of anyone else's burdens - only my own. She didn't judge. She didn't feel smart or strong enough to judge.

Robyn Carr

#3. The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.

Herbert Croly

#4. Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.

James Clavell

#5. A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

E.B. White

#6. As E.B. White said, "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.

Morgan Gist MacDonald

#7. In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.

Eugene H. Peterson

#9. That one word, my dear Watson, should have told me the whole story had I been the ideal reasoner which you are so fond of depicting. It was evidently a term of reproach."

-Sherlock Holmes-

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer. "Professional" would be somebody who was trying to push painting to a point that nobody else could do as well as he could. That would be my ideal professional.

Lawrence Weiner

#12. But of course we do not like to listen to our mothers," said Mrs. Ali, smiling. "At least, not until long after we are mothers ourselves.

Helen Simonson

#13. Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that promises to transcend ordinary life and make the ideal real. It depends on a special combination of mystery and grace. Too much information breaks the spell.

Virginia Postrel

#14. Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

Yehudi Menuhin

#15. Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Jean-Henri Fabre

#16. I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

Daniel Radcliffe

#17. Kirk Cousins has played much better at the quarterback position than Robert Griffin III has,

Joe Theismann

#18. The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some kind of unknown other who will be sympathetic and read each word carefully and understand what I'm writing about. I suppose every writer feels this.

Paul Auster

#19. When I fart my ass makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell.

Adam Carolla

#20. The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.

Alfred Hitchcock

#21. It had three or four book-cases, all of them very full, and a rack of wands, with newspapers and magazines hung out upon them like dripping laundry.

Sarah Waters

#22. Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#23. Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

Timothy Leary