Idol Quotes
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Idol Quotes & Sayings
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It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.
— Walter Lippmann
'American Idol' is the fast track to fame. I'm just lucky it worked out. I don't feel different. The way people react to me is different.
— Crystal Bowersox
I never really had an idol.
— Maria Sharapova
Cynicism leads to despair, while fixating on the efforts that seemed to work in the past makes an idol out of spiritual states.
— Monks Of New Skete
Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
— Douglas Wood
An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
— Robert Moses
But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.
— Tom DeLonge
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
— St. Jerome
Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
— Billy Idol
When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
— Ferran Adria
Patsy Cline is my favorite singer in the entire world - she is my idol. I adore her.
— Nikki Blonsky
How are you gonna make an 'idol' from the type of person you're trying to avoid in real life?
— Natasha Leggero
There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
— Adam Lambert
When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.
— Jordin Sparks
Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.
— Kristi Yamaguchi
American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.
— Luke Bryan
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.
— Katy B
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
— Friedrich Schiller
But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.
— Meg Cabot
When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
— Namie Amuro
I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade.
— Dierks Bentley
Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.
— Criss Jami
You're still my idol.
— Manny Pacquiao
Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.
— Jonathan Krohn
In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer
I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist
— Choi Soo-young
Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
— Freddie Mercury
Democracy is just a false idol - a mere catchword and illusion of inferior classes, visionaries and dying civilizations.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Dex has always had an aura of cool about him but right now he could be just about any dork drooling over his idol. What a twatwaffle.
— Karina Halle
For the past two years, the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.
— Corey Clark
There's a lot I've yet to say about 'American Idol,' so I am excited about teaming up with 'Idol Go Home' and starting my blog.
— Brian Dunkleman
And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.
— Agatha Christie
I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.
— Nicki Minaj
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.
— James Lafferty
The idol is the expression of religion.
— Swami Vivekananda
Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.
— Anthony Liccione
Everybody is a teenage idol.
— Barry Gibb
Wheresoever thou findest a high mountain or a lofty hill and a green tree, know that an idol is there!
— Akiva Ben Joseph
Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.
— Billy Idol
And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
— William Shakespeare
I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.
— Idries Shah
We slay the Love Idol at the site of the Crucifixion, nailing it to the cross.
— Jennifer Dukes Lee
As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.
— A.W. Tozer
When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!
— Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
— Joseph Addison
Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.
— Roberto Cavalli
Honor is the idol of man's mind
— George Washington Brooks
Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?
— Joe Cocker
My father is my best friend. He's my idol and my boss. We work side by side and spend every weekend together.
— Eric Trump
Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.
— Evgeni Plushenko
I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.
— Billy Idol
Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.
— Hermann Maier
Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.
— Janet Fitch
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
— Gordon Brown
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
— Magic Johnson
Most people use Twitter to meet girls, and I use it to meet 'American Idol' contestants!
— Chris Jericho
Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.
— Aldous Huxley
Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.
— Swami Vivekananda
The Human heart is an idol factory.
— John Calvin
Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.
— Swami Vivekananda
Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
— Vance Havner
The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it
— Blake Lewis
The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.
— James Luther Adams
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
— Rick Springfield
In the Kural there is a chapter on invocation to God. But there is no place in it for principle of idol worship.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.
— Natalie Gulbis
Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.
— Swami Vivekananda
As the world continues to find new ways to tear itself apart, humans still love, hate, feel rejected and yarn to be close to someone.
— Billy Idol
Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.
— Philip Sidney
I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'
— Quincy Jones
Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
— Manish Dayal
Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.
— Jordin Sparks
Their Bibles had become an idol before God. That the cross, as a symbol, was an idol, even their own self-image was an idol before God.
— Trevor D. Richardson