Famous Quotes & Sayings

Curtis Joseph

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

Amber Riley

I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'

Anton LaVey

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe!

I always love her game, she was kind of my idol before. (But) I just have to play tennis, and I did.

Kenny Perry

Greg was the idol for young Australians, just like Jack Nicklaus was to me and my American generation.

Billy Graham

Even our pets can become idols.

Billy Corgan

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

Carrie Underwood

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

John C. Reilly

Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I've never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.

James Lafferty

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

Joel Kinnaman

It's great to get to work with your idols.

Kevin Bacon

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

Katy B

I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.

Luke Bryan

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.

Os Guinness

Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations

Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Did you see American Idol last night? ... You've got to see this.

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: / Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

There were no American Idols here tonight. That was ugly.

Gordon Brown

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

Isaac Mizrahi

What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

Jennifer Hudson

Long before 'American Idol', people used to call me a diva. And I be like, 'Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva.'

Jennifer Hudson

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

Jerry Rice

Lynn Swann was an idol. It would amaze me how he could fly through the air and make those catches. I'll never forget the one versus Dallas. It was the greatest catch I've ever seen.

Jennifer Lawrence

There are certain times when a certain person says something to me, that will stick with me for a really long time. But I don't remember one person being my idol, or anything like that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

Ezra Levant

The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three times that height, but will serve the same imposing purpose.

Grimes

If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

Reginald Hudlin

There should be a three-year moratorium on pitches of any variation of American Idol .

John Ortberg

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

The purifications are very important because they make sure the idol is complete.