Idols Quotes · Page 10

Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off…

— Gustave Flaubert

This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail…

— Mary McCarthy

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

— Shirley Manson

I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of…

— Steve McQueen

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…

— Mario Vazquez

I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my…

— Chris Daughtry

The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly.…

— Simone Weil

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

— Walter Lippmann

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

— Brendon Urie

I think we’re at the stage where we’re not musicians but not idols either. In a way, we also feel bad for…

— G-Dragon

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent…

— Justin Timberlake

When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting…

— James Frey

Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

— Mark Driscoll

It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the…

— Charles Spurgeon

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our…

— Nancy Pearcey

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded;…

— Honore de Balzac

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

— Leif Garrett

I have two idols in my life - God and my mum.

— Gabriel Jesus

It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more…

— Neymar

“. . . once people stop believing in the God of the Bible, they don't believe in nothing--they begin to believe in anything.”

— Alistair Begg

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,'…

— Kelly Clarkson

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

— Timothy Keller

Lots of women tell me I'm their idol.

— Jenna Jameson

One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was…

— Jacob Latimore

Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first…

— Idina Menzel