Idols Quotes - Page 5

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

The idol is the expression of religion.

Because Bobby and I are both under the category of idols, I think it became a larger controversy. I hope that many people are able to realize that within hip-hop, this is a way to express yourself and that it's natural.

An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle.

The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

Purge me from every sinful blot; My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought, From all the filth of self and pride. The hatred of the carnal mind Out of my flesh at once remove: Give me a tender heart, resigned, And pure, and full of faith and love.

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

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

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

Weird Weekends set out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. To me, it's almost a privilege to be welcomed into these communities and to shine a light on them and, maybe, through my enthusiasm, to get people to reveal more of themselves than they may have intended. The show is laughing at me, adrift in their world, as much as at them. I don't have to play up that stuff. I'm not a matinee idol disguised as a nerd