Idealised Quotes

#1. It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

Lee Kuan Yew

#2. Everything in L.A. is - it's just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you got the ocean right there and the mountains behind you; there's an idealised easiness to the way you live and the whole environment.

Spike Jonze

#3. The rise of gyms, factories of cosmetic muscle, is partly down to an increased desire to sculpt an idealised body - a body not formed by experience, but to fulfil a well-marketed visual stereotype

Grayson Perry

#4. I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.

Antony Gormley

#5. When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.

Winston Graham

#6. There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

Elvis Costello

#7. Nature should be idealised not copied.

Owen Jones Classics

#8. It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions of home-indeed, looking for the perfect memory.

Paul Theroux

#9. Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.

Richard Branson

#10. When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

Paul Theroux

#11. Whether it's 'Veep' or 'Homeland' or 'The West Wing' - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Kevin Spacey

#12. The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Robertson Davies

#13. Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.

Linda Colley

#14. Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Elvis Costello

#15. I think it's easy to hold on to this romantic hope that communities such as Niaqornat won't change, because we're in this world where progress is unstoppable, and they're a link to some idealised past.

Sarah Gavron

#16. There were some, naturally, who would understand, and he wrote for them, or for himself. Anyhow, some idealised reader who would accept everything, and forgive.

Damon Galgut

#17. They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.

Don McLean

#18. I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.

Steve Breen

#19. You can't make God move in your life, but you can make room for God to move in your life.

Steven Furtick

#20. Be firm. Be bold.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. All men are mad in some way or the other;

Bram Stoker

#22. It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go; but it is a gift of darkness as well as light.

Mary Stewart

#23. Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.

Hillary Rodham Clinton