Pedestals Quotes

17 quotes by 14 authors

Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I… — Julia Stiles
If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much… — Margaret Atwood
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard. — William Ralph Inge
You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words… — Winston Churchill
People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not,… — Janet Jackson
The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of… — Michael Musto
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums. — Zaha Hadid
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. — Agnes Repplier
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts… — Winston Churchill
In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals… — Cormac McCarthy
What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased… — Douglas Hofstadter
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there. — Betty Grable
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy,… — Jonathan Shapiro

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