Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Denis Leary

I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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.

There were no American Idols here tonight. That was ugly.

Miley Cyrus

If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don't because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don't wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that's when your spark is lost.

Craig Ferguson

This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

Brian Wilson

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

Breckin Meyer

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.

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.

Dennis Quaid

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: / Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

John Ortberg

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

Claude Debussy

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!

Drew Goddard

It's so rare that you meet your idols and they outdo your expectations.

Douglas Coupland

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Andrea Bocelli

My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.

Don Knotts

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

Dwight L. Moody

Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

Dolly Parton

I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'

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.

Amber Riley

I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'

Andrew Carnegie

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

Clay Aiken

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off each other.

Clifton Fadiman

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

Curtis Joseph

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

Andy Lau

I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.

Susan Sontag

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Thorstein Veblen

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.

Rush Limbaugh

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.