Ideal Type Person

Famous quotes containing the words ideal, type and/or person:

    Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly “forgot it” and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

    When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
    Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)