Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

John Ortberg

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

Jack Klugman

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

Jack Dempsey

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

J. C. Ryle

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

J. C. Ryle

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: / Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Kimberly Caldwell

The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Jason Terry

My idol, Gary Payton, played 19 years. I definitely want to try to reach that.

Hildegard Knef

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

Evgeny Morozov

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

Grimes

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

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.

There were no American Idols here tonight. That was ugly.

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.