Idols Quotes · Page 11

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

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

Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give,…

— Bhagavad Gita

A lot of people who wanted to audition for Idol have asked me: “What should I do?” or “How to I prepare…

— Jessica Sanchez

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

And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud.…

— L. Ron Hubbard

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical…

— Thorstein Veblen

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

— M.F. Moonzajer

It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.

— Neymar

I will always appreciate 'American Idol,' and I never forget about where I come from.

— Lee DeWyze

You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration

— Jack Kerouac

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

— Natalie Gulbis

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

— R. C. Sproul

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

— Dirk Nowitzki

Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing

— Aamir Khan

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

— Ryan Garcia

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

— Democritus

“Best revenge? Smile, be happy and never let them know it hurt.”

— KARA Goo Hara

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

— Adam Lambert

I can put all the idols on my bed and sleep, I'm so fond of them.

— Anushka Shetty

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.

— Breckin Meyer

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

— Susan Sontag

It's funny how everyone has idols but they'll never be them, be your own.

— Chris Time Steele