Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Miller

Who is this Pat Condell? He's my friend. He likes his beer; He adores England and respects North America. He can be crude or extremely elegant, and best of all, he despises dogma and the leeches who spout it and the fools who follow the likes of Jones, Falwell, Kennedy, Swaggart, Copeland, Bakker and Hinn.

Sheikh Ahmad

He loved his family and friends, gatherings. He especially adores his mother. First comes God, then his mother.

Frank Rijkaard

He transmits a lot of joy and pleasure playing the game, and he has individual skills that are of such a high level that everybody in the world adores him.

Laura Lacy

She just adores him. She sits in his hand and stares at him, and he just loves it.

Bruce Cameron

The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical, and as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.

Frederick the Great

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

Frances McDormand

I played his mother, so that was kind of fascinating, ... I met her, she had a small part in the movie, and he adores her, so I was really lucky.

Carrie Underwood

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Tszvetana Pironkova

I always love her game, she was kind of my idol before. (But) I just have to play tennis, and I did.

Kenny Perry

Greg was the idol for young Australians, just like Jack Nicklaus was to me and my American generation.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Diablo Cody

I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of bloggers, tweeters, and self-ordained voice coaches.

Billy Joel

I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans.

Billy Bob Thornton

We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.

Kevin Corrigan

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.

Benjamin Franklin

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Chuck Palahniuk

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

Gore Vidal

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

C. S. Lewis

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

C. S. Lewis

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Carl Sagan

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

Carl Sagan

Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Bernadette Devlin

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

Bertrand Russell

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.