Idealizations Quotes

#1. If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

Oscar W. Firkins

#2. Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

Robert Smithson

#3. I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting ...

Gaston Bachelard

#4. Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#5. I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we're not on tour and we're writing, we're in a small room and you can't get out physically. I like that mental checking-out aspect - I think it's quite nice.

Lauren Mayberry

#6. Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

Paul McCartney

#7. There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

Gillian Flynn

#8. I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

James Surowiecki

#9. I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

Kami Garcia

#10. I'm a huge Marvin Gaye fan.

Charlie Puth

#11. The flinch is your real opponent, and information won't help you fight it. It's behind every unhappy marriage, every hidden vice, and every unfulfilled life. Behind the flinch is pain avoidance, and dealing with pain demands strength you may not think you have.

Julien Smith

#12. At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

Josh Lucas

#13. I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

Asghar Farhadi

#14. All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively ... and then living it.

Criss Jami