Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Everyone is interested in Idol . It's huge.

Kevin Drew

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

Buzz Aldrin

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

Jared Leto

If I was ever a teen idol, I’d kill myself.

Jenna Jameson

Lots of women tell me I'm their idol.

Gilda Radner

I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.

Mika

Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.

Kimberly Caldwell

The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

Karl Marx

England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

Honore de Balzac

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

Jason Terry

My idol, Gary Payton, played 19 years. I definitely want to try to reach that.

Hildegard Knef

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

Evgeny Morozov

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

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.

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.

Frankie Avalon

It's a lot calmer now than when I was a kid with the whole teen idol thing. People are so kind and receptive.

Paul Valery

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language of "creation.

Pope Francis

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Pope Francis

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

Pope Francis

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

Pia Toscano

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

Lindsay Lohan

I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols, also.

Leif Garrett

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

Karl Popper

The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever.

Gustave Flaubert

We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

Gustave Flaubert

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

Karen Kingsbury

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

Karlie Kloss

Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

Karl Barth

Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world.

Kanye West

Pharrell has always been my style idol.