A Quote by Rick Bayan

Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision

Rick Bayan

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Rick Bayan
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Born: January 27, 1950

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

Julie Burchill

He could feel it immediately when his shoulder snapped - the intense pain of his bones cracking. His skin tightened, as if it could no long hold whatever was lurking inside him. The breath was sucked from his lungs like he was being crushed. His vision began to blur, and he had the sensation he was falling, even though he could feel the rock tearing at his flesh as his body seized on the ground.

Kami Garcia

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

Edith Piaf

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm no longer in my 20s, and I think, by default, the rose-colored glasses are off.

Sasheer Zamata

I'm like a little Pollyanna. I look at the world with rose-colored glasses.

Sutton Foster

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

Mitt Romney

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

P. J. Harvey

I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

Usher

Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.

Terre Thaemlitz

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

Ann Landers

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical." Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?

George Carlin

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

Sharon Tate

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.