Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Clarkson

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

Margaret Cho

I had been taking various lessons. I've also had a lot of incredible singers give me a ton of great advice. From Cyndi Lauper, who kind of taught me the basics, and I've also worked with Bird. She's a tremendous coach and she often coaches the contestants on American Idol. I've had a great amount of support.

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.

R. C. Sproul

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

R. C. Sproul

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

Grimes

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

Everyone is interested in Idol . It's huge.

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.

Shaun Cassidy

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

Shane Claiborne

Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.

Joseph Sobran

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

Lily Allen

Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It's not so much interacting with my fans - it's about doing something with what I have. I have my camera and I have my computer, and if I have some spare time, rather than watching some mindless bullshit pop-idol program on TV, why not show people my pictures and try and discuss things that I feel are important?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

M. Ward

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

Lorna Luft

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

Michael Hirst

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

Michael Caine

I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this [shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol], but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.

Mark Driscoll

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

Kevin Drew

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

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.

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

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.

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 Love Hewitt

I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.