Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Jared Leto

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

Mika

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

Buzz Aldrin

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

Natalie Cole

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

Nancy Pearcey

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

Nancy Pearcey

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down.

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!

Joseph Addison

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

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.

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.

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.

Os Guinness

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

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

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.

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.

Joel Kinnaman

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

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.

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.

Luke Bryan

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.

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.