Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Quaid

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Diablo Cody

I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of bloggers, tweeters, and self-ordained voice coaches.

Denis Leary

I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

Diana DeGarmo

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

Billy Joel

I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans.

Benjamin Franklin

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Billy Bob Thornton

We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.

Kevin Corrigan

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.

Alice Meynell

Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

John Caudwell

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

Ed Pien

My interest in the potency of fear comes from my Taiwanese childhood in which fear of ghosts was used to shape my values.

Jennifer Mullin

Obviously, we want to see more dollars put to early childhood education and . . . teacher salaries. He looks forward to working the differences out.

Dennis Potter

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Denis Johnson

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

The Years

Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.

Bernard Berenson

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Dave Pelzer

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

Ava Gardner

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood

Allen Ginsberg

Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?

Anthony Hopkins

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

Muddy Waters

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

Sorin Cerin

Sunset is the wail of Time and sunrise is its smile.

Jeannette Walls

I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

Jeannette Walls

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

Emily Dickinson

Sunrise: day's great progenitor.