Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Joseph Sobran

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

Lily Allen

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?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

R. C. Sproul

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

Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.

Kelly Clarkson

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

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.