Famous Quotes & Sayings

Os Guinness

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

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.

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.

James Russell Lowell

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

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.

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.

Lord Byron

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

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.

Maria Sharapova

I never really had an idol.

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.

John Ruskin

He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

John Owen

the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.

Joel Kinnaman

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

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.

Luke Bryan

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.

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.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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.

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.