Idols Quotes · Page 8

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an…

— Namie Amuro

Michael Jackson has been my idol since before I could even walk.

— Keiynan Lonsdale

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

— Jason Bateman

Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols

— Michael Harner

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation

— John Adams

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

— Friedrich Schiller

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

— Don Knotts

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!

— Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

Let us say "Yes" to life and not death. Let us say "Yes" to freedom and not enslavement to the many idols…

— Pope Francis

That's my idol, Elvis Presley. If you went to my house, you'd see pictures all over of Elvis. He's just the greatest…

— Eddie Murphy

Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out — Allah Akbar! and there is no…

— William Ross Wallace

It's an honour and a privilege to meet people who look at you as their idol , they actually lose weight and…

— Phil Heath

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in…

— Nigel Lythgoe

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

— John Milton

In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our…

— Isaac Newton

This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description…

— Julian Baggini

The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made…

— Joe Conason

It was never something I had in my mind to do – a show on Nickelodeon, let alone being consider a teen…

— Logan Henderson

It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is…

— Samuel Rutherford

Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is…

— R. C. Sproul

I also think one of the things that's really hurting us is political activism of any stripe. Michael Jordan had it exactly…

— Edward Allen Bernero

To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I…

— Philip Graham Ryken

“Perfections were created by idols—both are illusions. You are enough!”

— Elena Levon

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

— Jack Klugman

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.

— Marina Abramovic

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

— John Fogerty

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

— Timothy Keller

The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

— Kimberly Caldwell

I've been able to work with incredible people, including some of my idols.

— Everlast

I think I would fan over Beyonce or Adele. Those are my two girl idols, definitely.

— Ella Henderson

When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.

— Abigail Disney

“Twilight of the idols, it cursed from the worship of the extinguished candles.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Every idol, if you scratch it, is a mirror. We worship ourselves.

— R. C. Sproul, Jr

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

— Mark Driscoll

Drake is one of the best and one of my idols also. Drake's the truth.

— Rich Homie Quan

My idols are Oprah and Martha. From nothing, they built industries.

— Thalia

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Rumi