Idols Quotes · Page 10

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

— Elizabeth Taylor

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

— A. B. Simpson

Your every breath of life is so precious, so don't waste any moment of life while sitting idol.

— Wiz Khalifa

If [American Idol] was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race.

— Kimberley Locke

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

I've now met, I would say, almost every single one of my rock idols. I feel like I should just drive off…

— Tim Schafer

I love Frank Sinatra. He is one of my biggest all-time idols.

— Brendon Urie

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…

— J. Milton Hayes

I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my…

— Coco Austin

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

— William Shakespeare

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in…

— Omar Khayyam

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita…

— Dita Von Teese

If we must “feel” God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp…

— Craig S. Keener

“Their Bibles had become an idol before God. That the cross, as a symbol, was an idol, even their own self-image was…

— Trevor D. Richardson

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality,…

— Kristi Yamaguchi

“What you need to drive out an old passion, is a new passion, a greater passion. What you need is an over-mastering…

— Timothy Keller

If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I…

— Miley Cyrus

Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection…

— Karen Armstrong

[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is…

— Timothy Keller

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow…

— Jodi Picoult

There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and hundreds of…

— Leslie Moonves

The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware…

— Louis C. K

I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview…

— Kim Him-chan

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

— Adrian Rogers

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

— Chanakya

I am extremely grateful for my 'American Idol' experience, and I enjoyed every bit of it.

— Rayvon Owen

How are you gonna make an 'idol' from the type of person you're trying to avoid in real life?

— Natasha Leggero

We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

— Gustave Flaubert

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

— Tom DeLonge

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

— John Calvin

The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols.

— Josh Widdicombe

When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.

— PJ Harvey

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

— Miranda Lambert

When I was younger my idols were Marco van Basten and Ruud Gullit.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

I don't have any idols, I owe it all to hardwork, dedication and competence.

— Goldlink

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Robert Moses

“We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for ghost and phantoms.”

— M.F. Moonzajer