Franz Klammer was my great idol in my younger years.

That's one of my idols, I really look up to Pacquiao. This guy is everything I would want to be.

— Ryan Garcia

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

— Rumi

The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR and every…

— Sergio Aguero

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

— Arthur Eddington

“‎A careful reading of the Old and New Testaments shows that idolatry is nothing like the crude picture that springs to mind of a…

— Richard Keyes

I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's…

— Kelly Clarkson

The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.

— Molly Ivins

“We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.”

— Gustave Flaubert

My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary.

— Daniel Ortega

My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do.

— Richard Patrick

A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.

— La'Porsha Renae

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer…

— Eduardo Galeano

First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens'…

— John Milton

You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love…

— Philip K. Dick

We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to…

— Timothy Keller