Idols Quotes · Page 8

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

— Peter Kreeft

God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

— Chanakya

All my idols have been in the studio with me, because they wanted to be there.

— DJ Premier

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

— Criss Jami

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

— Tullian Tchividjian

I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.

— Roger Moore

It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.

— Drew Goddard

We don't need American Idols. We need American icons. Icons of work.

— Mike Rowe

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some…

— Paula Abdul

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because…

— Edward Dahlberg

We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio…

— J. B. Priestley

Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an…

— Mel Lawrenz

I was 19 when I first auditioned for 'American Idol.' I'd never been on an airplane; I'd never been outside of my…

— Kellie Pickler

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a…

— James Lafferty

Drake had invited me to his house. For one of my biggest idols - I look up to him - To invite…

— Rich Homie Quan

It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Parents who do not persevere in rearing their children according to their own convictions are not leaving them 'free' to develop on…

— William V. Shannon

Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and…

— Steven Morrissey

You only have one life. And you only have one life of worship. You have one brief opportunity in time to declare…

— Louie Giglio

Just like Marilyn Monroe is a lot of girls' idol, that's how I feel about Dorothy Dandridge. And she any Marilyn were…

— Janet Jackson

So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden…

— Michelangelo

While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as…

— Mark Driscoll

Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if…

— Baroness Orczy

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things…

— Stephen King

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

— Martial

We're just like you. Were not these older idols, you know, were just kids like you guys.

— Brendon Urie

I watched Romario when I was young, and he was one of my idols.

— Fernandinho

I watched, trained and learned from the best players in the world, my idols.

— Martin Odegaard

Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.

— Mika

“If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.”

— Joel Osteen

In my heart, I know I'm just as talented as some of my idols.

— Donnis

Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol...

— Alan Watts

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

— Andres Iniesta

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

— Gustave Flaubert

My idol, Gary Payton, played 19 years. I definitely want to try to reach that.

— Jason Terry

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

— Lorna Luft

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

— Anonymous

I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade.

— Dierks Bentley

I need to keep my dancing on the right side of weird, otherwise it might get a bit like "American Idol."

— Matthew Healy

Vince McMahon is one of my all time idols in terms of building a brand and sustaining a great company.

— Tony Khan