Quotes about idol
idols hands should
We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands. Gustave Flaubert
idols sticks degrees
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.
idols people literature
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. Lord Byron
idols people goes-on
The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame. Kimberly Caldwell
idols skulls progress
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. Karl Marx
idols
Lots of women tell me I'm their idol. Jenna Jameson
idols lucy
I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol. Gilda Radner
idols evil anarchy
Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it? Joseph Sobran
idols people bullshit
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? Lily Allen
idols strange fame
It is strange what society will endure from its idols. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
idols wrath justice
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
idols sovereign conception
Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
idols negative fear-of-change
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
idols tv-shows proud
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.
idols giving bird
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. Margaret Cho
idols watches singers
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. M. Ward
idols parent chance
When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest. Lorna Luft
idols able single-women
I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman. Nicki Minaj
idols moments horns
My best and worst 'Idol' moments? I don't have a worst 'Idol' moment... I've been spectacular. Yes, I am going to toot my own horn. And then my best moment is every single moment. I'll toot it again!
idols lennon
I only have one idol: John Lennon. Michael Hirst
idols smell mad
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
idolatry offers second-place
He who offers God a second place offers Him no place. John Ruskin
idols poison thrones
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. John Owen
idols focus house
Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me. LaToya London
idols trying reach-out
I try to reach out to my idols. Thia Megia
idols people election
This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election. Rush Limbaugh
idols musical administration
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration. Robert Moses
idols society looks
The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash. Walter Lippmann
idols makers
It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.
idols feet hands
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. Voltaire
idols want typical
I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing. Willie Aames
idols childhood sunrise
Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action. Woody Allen
idols sitting waste
Your every breath of life is so precious, so don't waste any moment of life while sitting idol. Wiz Khalifa