Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Billy Joel

I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans.

Diablo Cody

I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of bloggers, tweeters, and self-ordained voice coaches.

Denis Leary

I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

Diana DeGarmo

"American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

Benjamin Franklin

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Brian Wilson

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

Billy Bob Thornton

We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.

Kevin Corrigan

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.

Dennis Quaid

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

Craig Ferguson

This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

Arthur Hugh Clough

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

Andrea Bocelli

My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.

Adrian Rogers

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

Agatha Christie

And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

Miley Cyrus

If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don't because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don't wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that's when your spark is lost.

Breckin Meyer

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.

Andy Lau

I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.

Clay Aiken

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

Daniel J. Boorstin

A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off each other.

Clifton Fadiman

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

Don Knotts

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

Claude Debussy

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!

Drew Goddard

It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.

Andrew Carnegie

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

Douglas Coupland

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Dwight L. Moody

Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

Dolly Parton

I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

Desmond Tutu

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Dave Grohl

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

Dan Fogelberg

How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for?

Curtis Joseph

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

Amber Riley

I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'