Idols Quotes

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

Taylor Swift is pretty hip...She seems pretty honest. I think that’s hip. She’s promoting knowing yourself, and that’s the best idol.

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

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

Shelley was an idol of mine -- and many -- an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade.

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

That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest entertainer that ever lived.

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

When I arrived in America at the end of 1967, my only purpose was to observe (for a couple of months) my idols, which were mostly instrumentalists. I wanted to play jazz, not sing it.

I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.

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

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.

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

What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

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.

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

Lots of women tell me I'm their idol.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Men are idol factories.

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

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.

I was on Ghetto Idol. We didn't have any of the stuff they have now.

My idols are all older.

I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.

An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.

Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

'American Idol' has taken over my whole life.

Beware of your dreams. They can become misplaced lovers. They can become idols.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

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