Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desmond Tutu

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Clay Aiken

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

Lorna Luft

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

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

Jennifer Hudson

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

Buzz Aldrin

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

Walter Lippmann

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Alexander Ovechkin

I saw the rebound and when the puck came to me, I said, oh my God, puck, I must shoot.

David Foster Wallace

If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

Ron Ziegler

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.

Sigrid Undset

I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.

Steven Millhauser

I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.