Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maria Sharapova

I never really had an idol.

Michael Hirst

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

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

Joseph Addison

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

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.

Swami Vivekananda

The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."

Woody Allen

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.

Vance Havner

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

Robert Moses

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

Tullian Tchividjian

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life

Samuel Rutherford

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

Samuel Rutherford

Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.

Walter Lippmann

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.