Life seemed ideal to him right then, and he was happy for the first time in a long time, and it felt like the sun was shining from his heart." - from the novel Brainjob by David Sloma.
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machine...
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
Bir ressam için en ideal olanı, Pantheon'un *oculus'ü gibidir. Yüksekten gelen ışık modelin yüzüne, hatta o anlamsız çirkin yüze bile, tatlı bir hava, sanatçının istediği biçimde işleyeceği bir tür güzellik katacaktır... *oculu...
Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.
There may be no English word as bent and broken by casual misuse, or drained of blood by idealizing admirers and apologists, or grossly caricatured by huckstering detractors, as church.
The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?
When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.
As far as it’s ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your efforts.
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
To love someone as much as you love yourself, that is the ideal. Especially if that someone is your clone.
We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations.
As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time is reading a good novel, alone
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.
I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.
Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive, he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
