Top 67 Idealized Quotes
#1. As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who strives and not just cooks and scrubs for her children, but who also acts as her daughter's literary agent.
Richard Corliss
#2. We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.
Drew Goddard
#3. Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.
Jane McGonigal
#4. I've always idealized women I've loved - they all fell short, save one - the one God chose for me - she lights up a room by walking into it ...
John Geddes
#5. If there's a supernatural agent that is working in the natural world, then the idealized conditions described by the law are no longer in effect. The law isn't violated because the law has this implicit provision that nothing is messing around with the conditions.
William Lane Craig
#6. For me there's several components to picture-taking and it starts with my goals as an artist. It's capturing I guess the inner life of my subject and then it is giving them their idealized version of themselves.
Carol Friedman
#7. A branch of electrical theory called network theory deals with the electrical properties of electrical circuits, or networks, made by interconnecting three sorts of idealized electrical structures:
John Robinson Pierce
#8. Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.
Amy Bloom
#9. 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 have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.
Joan Cusack
#10. Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
Victoria Secunda
#11. Clinging to an idealized past was a poison of sorts, that bastard Nostalgia, making people think there was a better time and place if they could just get back to it.
Hugh Howey
#12. Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for. Perfection was marred only by those corruptions necessary to its enterprise.
Joshua Ferris
#13. What we call disorder or chaos might actually be order, if order is seen as a random distribution and not as a static, idealized condition.
William Lanouette
#14. 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 beautiful art. It's an expression without words.
Natalie Portman
#15. I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.
Adrian Tomine
#16. 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 funnier than her other qualities.
Pedro Almodovar
#17. We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.
Anne Taylor Fleming
#18. I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.
Paul Auster
#19. Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.
Rufus Wainwright
#20. Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the world.
Maya Rodale
#21. My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
Edward Kennedy
#22. A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.
Matthew Fox
#23. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Erica Jong
#24. I used to get people criticizing me for drawing so many women with gorgeous idealized bodies, but I pointed out that I draw a lot of men with muscular bodies, washboard abs, and enormous wangs, and they never got criticized. So those criticisms have stopped.
Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
#25. A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging toward a trio of young office techs who wore idealized holographic vaginas on their wrists, wet pink glittering under the harsh lighting. The
William Gibson
#26. But rather than relying on a thin, idealized hope that we will all one day just get along, we can approach conflict resolution as an art form that we are privileged to develop and hone.
Diane Musho Hamilton
#27. If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
Timothy Keller
#28. The wild is where you find it, not in some distant world relegated to a nostalgic past or an idealized future; its presence is not black or white, bad or good, corrupted or innocent... We are of that nature, not apart from it. We survive because of it, not instead of it.
Renee Askins
#29. From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.
Aasif Mandvi
#30. Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
Ilka Chase
#31. If there is some sort of trouble at home, kids don't think that James Bond is going to come save their mum from their dad, or their dad from their mum. They don't think, "Bond is going to come and save me." Superman is a different sort of idealized figure.
Henry Cavill
#32. There is one great beauty in idealized romance: reading it can make no one worse than he is, while it may help thousands to a cleaner life and higher inspiration than they ever before have known.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#33. Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.
Neil Peart
#34. yoga is not a practice of attaining idealized physical postures, but a process of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and self-transformation. Reinforce
Mark Stephens
#35. I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
Irvin D. Yalom
#36. Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family.
Jill Soloway
#37. 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 entertained.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
#38. The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be in physical science is only an idealized world, while the real universe is the spiritual universe in which spiritual values count for everything.
John B. S. Haldane
#39. Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.
Charles Bronson
#40. Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
Frank Herbert
#41. Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
R.A. Salvatore
#42. Leading man seems to quite often be an idealized figure.
James McAvoy
#43. The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
Anais Nin
#44. 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.
#45. I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized.
Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr.
#46. Women's evolution unfolded through stages in the last 100 years. The first stage was "Wonder Woman," an idealized figure who functioned like
Sylvia Becker-Hill
#47. If you are in a big city or on an online dating site, you are flooded with options. Seeing all these options, like the people in the job example, are we now comparing our potential partners not to other potential partners but rather to an idealized person whom no one could measure up to?
Aziz Ansari
#48. The idealized woman becomes property, symbol, and ornament; she is stripped of her essential human qualities. The devalued woman becomes a different kind of object; she is the spittoon in which men release their negative anti-woman feelings.
Bell Hooks
#49. Longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.
Stephen Cope
#50. Twenty-fours hours of sleeplessness had made her, in my eyes, anyway, and idealized representation of compassionate, long-suffering women of all ages everywhere.
Kurt Vonnegut
#51. The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.
Jane Fonda
#52. Our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life
Erich Maria Remarque
#53. I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.
Tony Judt
#54. Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.
James Hillman
#55. In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.
Will Schwalbe
#56. 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 represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#57. A trio of young office techs who wore idealized holographic vaginas on their wrists, wet pink glittering under the harsh lighting.
William Gibson
#58. Their reality was far more interesting than any idealized version could possibly be
Donna Tartt
#59. A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
Ben Gibbard
#60. Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves.
Dalai Lama
#61. 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 hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.
Sondre Lerche
#63. To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting.
Annette Bening
#64. I have this idealized version of myself in my head that is content and doing what she loves and is comfortable and sometimes I get caught up in her life that it's almost impossible to realize that she isn't real yet. But I hope to be her someday.
Unknown
#65. On some level, with its carrousels and castle and cowboys, its mysterious jungle and its animated characters, Disneyland is a highly idealized elaboration of our childhoods. It can be seen as a portal through which we revisit (maybe even heal) our youth.
Leslie Le Mon
#66. I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
Richard Rohr
#67. Sometimes we control our family members because we idolize and idealize our perfect plan over the journey that God has laid out for them. (p. 56)
Mary E. DeMuth
