Idyllic Quotes

• Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

  Bill Pullman

  Hypocrisy, Towns, Easy

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• My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

  Peter Jurasik

  Sweet, New York, Class

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 18, 2002.

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• But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

  James Dean

  Kids, Trying, Want

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• The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.

  Milan Kundera

  Dog, Love Is, Men

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• I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.

  Sissy Spacek

  Brother, Climbing, Tree

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• I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer.

  Ken Dodd

  Childhood, Parent, Wonderful

  "Dodd's Bolton Bonus". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.

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• It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.

  John Green

  Morning, Real, Light

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.106, Penguin UK

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• No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development.

  Milan Kundera

  Dog, Animal, Men

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• I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.

  Michael Light

  Sublime, Noble, Kind

  Interview with Lawrence Weschler, believermag.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I was always a happy and loving person. Many would say that I was living an idyllic life.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Loving Life, Loving Person, Persons

  "Depression and My Lifesavers" by Susan Polis Schutz, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Not every corporation's idyllic.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Corporations

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

  Martha Grimes

  Childhood, Illusion

  Martha Grimes (1999). “The Lamorna Wink: A Richard Jury Mystery”

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• I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Mother, Brother, Dad

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• My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.

  Nick Brandt

  Romantic, Photography, World

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• Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Captivity, Generations, Delight

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• Follow your passion, we’re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your heart about the world? It’s there that you begin to find what moves you. If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak. Your heartbreak points towards a truer north — and it’s the difficult journey towards it that is, in the truest sense, no mere passing idyllic infatuation, but enduring, tempestuous passion.

  Umair Haque

  Moving, Passion, Heart

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• Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a born poet, and a born writer. The Canoe is just the start of what I hope to be a long idyllic journey through the love and soul of the human heart.

  Trent Zelazny

  Moving, Heart, Loss

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• This supposed idyllic society we have is the most confused, warped, addicted society in the history of the world. We are addicted to power, we're addicted to our own image of ourselves, to violence, divorce, abortion, and sex.

  Martin Sheen

  Sex, Confused, Divorce

  Source: progressive.org

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• It is an indication of the extent to which people are now isolated from the animals they eat that children brought up on storybooks that lead them to think of a farm as a place where animals wander around freely in idyllic conditions might be able to live out their entire lives without ever being forced to revise this rosy image.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Animal, Thinking

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• It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of boating accident have come back to take their revenge.

  Selma Blair

  Revenge, Years, People

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• Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspirational, Motivational, Animal

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• I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when my mind is freshest. I might write for a couple of hours, and then I head out to have lunch and read the paper. Then I write for a little bit longer if I can, then probably go to the library or make some phone calls. Every day is a little bit different. I'm not highly routinized, so I spend a lot of time wandering around New York City with my laptop in my bag, wondering where I'm going to end up next. It's a fairly idyllic life for someone who likes writing.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Morning, New York, Couple

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. December 2008.

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• The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Sex, Women

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• I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.

  Donald Sinden

  Artist, Feet, Village

  "Pieces of me: Donald Sinden", www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2009.

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• I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.

  Connie Willis

  Sleep, Wonderland, Eras

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.206, Bantam

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