Erin Gruwell

The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.

American Writer

Perrie Edwards

I'm a human, we're going to go through hard times and hard periods of our life, it's not going to be an easy ride all the time. That's what we forget. On social media, it seems that way that living are living these idyllic lives and it's not. There's going to be bumps in the road, that's life.

English Singer

Colin Trevorrow

Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague.

American Director

David Amram

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.

American Composer

Wole Soyinka

An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to that unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance.

Nigerian Dramatist

Sissy Spacek

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.

American Actress

Jen Kirkman

I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won't accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation.

American Comedian

Katie Piper

My life is written about as though I've had this idyllic ending. But a marriage is something you have to work at.

English Writer

Susan Polis Schutz

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

American Poet

Kate Fleetwood

The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.

English Actress

Use 'idyllic' to paint a vivid mental picture of perfection and tranquility.

Visual Imagery

'Idyllic' isn't only for the countryside; any peaceful, perfect setting can be described this way.

Not Just Rural

'Idyllic' carries positive emotions; it's often used to express satisfaction and happiness.

Positive Emotion

Sometimes 'idyllic' can imply a setting so perfect that it seems almost imaginary.

Slightly Unreal

Use 'idyllic' for special or rare occasions, not for ordinary experiences.

Not Everyday

When using 'idyllic', there's often an underlying wish that life could always be so free from problems.

Perfection Hint

Idyllic circumstances are often contrasted with change that brings stress or problems.

Change Contrast

 where everything that can go wrong does go wrong -- where mothers cannot feed their children, where strangers cannot find the basis for peaceful collaboration, where people are murdered indiscriminately. And we know that it's possible to move along this continuum towards something quite a bit more idyllic,

Science can answer moral...

 basis for peaceful collaboration where people are murdered indiscriminately and we know that it's possible to move along this continuum towards something quite a bit more idyllic that - a place where a conference like this is even conceivable and we know we know that there are right

 Well, my brother was born and they came back to Korea, and we had what I remember as kind of an idyllic life, but what was happening in Korea at that time was the country was one of the poorest in the world and there was political upheaval.

Doesn't everyone deserve...

 a creative interior, to dream, to read, to work on music, art and writing. But there are many aspects to this life that are far from idyllic. No one loses their inner demons by taking to the road. Addiction is real, the elements are real,

A glimpse of life on the...

 Zanzibar and it's this the fifth changes everything it sounds as the van to this huge cut from this idyllic fishing village to this huge tourist town and these are the sort of stories I want to tell stories that have a important

Making stories come to...

 Others use enchanted swords or get help from magical beans. They could also reject the expectations of society and adhere to their own code of morality. And in the end, the hero triumphs over evil in an idyllic way,

A host of heroes - April...

 The an idyllic country with some of the clearest water and bluest skies on the planet. It is also the epicenter of one of the fastest-growing HIV epidemics in the world.

The dangerous evolution...

 assassination that rocked the country of the world to its core the story is riveting and personal and idyllic at the same time it actually is the stuff of Shakespeare

Killing Kennedy: Behind...

 surface each oyster will nurture a pearl for a year and a half outsiders come looking for paradise and leave with many questions is it idyllic here certainly is it

Disappearing Island PIPE...

 These idyllic hideaways are a magnet for tourists, who find it hard to resist taking the occasional souvenir.