Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

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

Craig Ferguson

This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

Arthur Hugh Clough

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

Miley Cyrus

If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don't because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don't wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that's when your spark is lost.

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

I know Venus since a long time from the TV when I was just a little kid. I always love her game, but when you go on the court, I am a professional player. I should not think about that she was kind of my idol before.

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.

Kevin Drew

In three years no one is going to remember (the Idol singers).

Jack Klugman

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

Jack Dempsey

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

J. C. Ryle

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

J. C. Ryle

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

Namie Amuro

People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.

Namie Amuro

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

Tom DeLonge

I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.

Tom DeLonge

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

Henry Rollins

Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.

James Russell Lowell

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

Jon Landau

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

Jon Foreman

What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.

Nigel Lythgoe

That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

N. T. Wright

You become like what you worship

Johnny Marr

Anything that's ever gotten on the charts as a result of "American Idol" or "The X Factor" in the UK. It's born out of karaoke culture. It's been a long time coming, but it's absolutely affected radio.

Maria Sharapova

I never really had an idol.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Neil Patrick Harris

If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.

Thorstein Veblen

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.

Swami Vivekananda

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.