Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

James Lafferty

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

Joel Kinnaman

It's great to get to work with your idols.

Luke Bryan

American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Gustave Flaubert

We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

Gustave Flaubert

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

Brian Wilson

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

Jason Terry

He reminds me of Kobe Bryant the way he's playing.

Kirk Martin

I'm just really proud of the way our girls came out with a focus. Bryan is sincerely a quality program and a well-coached team.

Rafael Perez

They just see a building, but they don't know how to get in because they don't live here. There isn't enough signs to show how to get to the Bryan Center.

Allen Barra

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Brian Rothenberg

There's a better nature to Bryan Flannery. But he hasn't been showing it throughout the primary, and it's unfortunate.

Jamey Shouppe

The thing about Bryan Henry he is going to work hard.

J. Moore

Doug's the type of guy who will never tell you he's tired. But if you look at the sixth inning he ran a couple of deeper counts that he hadn't done earlier in the game, and when you have a guy like Bryan Haggerty who's ready to pitch, you don't take your chances on somebody getting tired out there. If you see anything, you're going to make the change.

Pete Moore

Doug's the type of guy who will never tell you he's tired, ... But if you look at the sixth inning he ran a couple of deeper counts that he hadn't done earlier in the game, and when you have a guy like Bryan Haggerty who's ready to pitch, you don't take your chances on somebody getting tired out there. If you see anything, you're going to make the change.

Brian Eno

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

Bob Bolen

He was a hard worker at Woodrow, and it's carried over to his coaching, I think he's doing a great job. He was a tremendous player and always a joy to be around. He's always been a great kid, he was a great kid growing up, now he's a great young man.

Scott Erickson

He carried us. Before the game he guaranteed that we would win.

Joe Torre

He carried that with him the first half of the year. If for some reason his routine gets disrupted, (he's) sort of off-center. But he left spring with a good look in his eye.

Mike McGee

He is probably one of the most competitive people I've ever met and that has been carried on to me,

Stephen J. Cannell

I formed my own studio, carried my own deficits, owned one-hundred percent of my negatives, and made a lot of mistakes, but we ended up being the third largest TV studio in Hollywood.

Jamie Dixon

He's a great player. He's been a winner from the day he got here. The guys know that. They can sense it. It carries over with his competitiveness. The guys are watching, and I think Carl enjoys it. He relishes it. He's proud of what he's done here, and he should be.

Mark Martin

There is no driver in the sport who carries the size of stick that Dale Earnhardt carried. Every sport needs its heroes and we have our heroes here, but there are heroes who are very much different than Dale Earnhardt. There just won't be another one.

Julie Klausner

I think when it comes to women who write or who fancy ourselves 'hip downtown literati', there is a certain contempt for being overly sexual or really looking for boyfriends. We tend to be marginalized as some 'Sex & The City' Carrie Bradshaw chick-lit dummies who just want shoes and a ring.

Brother Emile

It happened very fast. There were some screams. We turned around. He was wounded. We carried him out of the church so people didn't see the terrible part ... She slit his throat.